It’s a good in-depth book review, summarizing some of the insights from the book while also giving people a good idea of whether they might want to read the book.
The topic in general feels like the kind of reductionist-philosophy-geekery that appeals to the kinds of people we might want to have on the site.
A reason not to curate the post might have been that despite the above points, several people may nevertheless feel that it’s not sufficiently connected to the topics of epistemic or instrumental rationality. However, we’ve got a bunch of more directly related posts in our curation queue, so in light of that and the above points, I’m curating this. (We’ve been slacking a little on curating posts and now have a bunch of them chosen for curation; doing it at a pace of one per day.)
Curated this post because:
It’s a good in-depth book review, summarizing some of the insights from the book while also giving people a good idea of whether they might want to read the book.
Understanding consciousness seems relevant for a range of ethical questions (compare e.g. lukeprog’s recent report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood for OpenPhil)
The topic in general feels like the kind of reductionist-philosophy-geekery that appeals to the kinds of people we might want to have on the site.
A reason not to curate the post might have been that despite the above points, several people may nevertheless feel that it’s not sufficiently connected to the topics of epistemic or instrumental rationality. However, we’ve got a bunch of more directly related posts in our curation queue, so in light of that and the above points, I’m curating this. (We’ve been slacking a little on curating posts and now have a bunch of them chosen for curation; doing it at a pace of one per day.)