Thank you — that’s exactly the spirit I was hoping to cultivate. I really appreciate your willingness to engage with the ideas on the level of their generative potential, even if you set aside their ultimate truth-value. Which is a hallmark of critical thinking.
I would be insanely glad if you could engage with it deeper since you strike me as someone who is… rational.
I especially resonate with your point about moving beyond mystery-as-aesthetic, and toward a structural analysis of how something like consciousness could emerge from given constraints. Whether or not EN is the right lens, I think treating consciousness as a problem of modeling rather than a problem of magic is a step in the right direction.
Thank you — that’s exactly the spirit I was hoping to cultivate. I really appreciate your willingness to engage with the ideas on the level of their generative potential, even if you set aside their ultimate truth-value. Which is a hallmark of critical thinking.
I would be insanely glad if you could engage with it deeper since you strike me as someone who is… rational.
I especially resonate with your point about moving beyond mystery-as-aesthetic, and toward a structural analysis of how something like consciousness could emerge from given constraints. Whether or not EN is the right lens, I think treating consciousness as a problem of modeling rather than a problem of magic is a step in the right direction.