These are great questions for clarifying the applicability/scope of the argument!
Forrest, my mentor, just wrote punchy and insightful replies. See this page.
Note that:
he rephrased some of your questions in terms of how he understands them.
he split some sentences into multiple lines – this formatting is unusual, but is meant to make individual parts of an argument easier to parse.
he clarified that not only hard substrates can be ‘artificial’ (I had restricted my explanation to hard compartmentalised parts, because it makes for cleaner reasoning, and it covers the bulk of the scenarios).
These are great questions for clarifying the applicability/scope of the argument!
Forrest, my mentor, just wrote punchy and insightful replies. See this page.
Note that:
he rephrased some of your questions in terms of how he understands them.
he split some sentences into multiple lines – this formatting is unusual, but is meant to make individual parts of an argument easier to parse.
he clarified that not only hard substrates can be ‘artificial’ (I had restricted my explanation to hard compartmentalised parts, because it makes for cleaner reasoning, and it covers the bulk of the scenarios).