Comment by PunchTornado 2 days ago
This guy says nothing new, various things he says have been discussed a lot better by chalmers, dennett and others (much more in depth too). classical behaviour from computer scientists where they semi copy-paste other's ideas and bring nothing new to the table.
then I am sure you can provide a few bullet points here with the novel ideas that you present.
Not everything needs to be a novel idea. 99% of blogs and books wouldn't be written if that were the case. Sometimes repeating information means somebody learns something they weren't aware of or is presented in a way that finally clicks for them. Meta-analysis is also useful. So is repeating experiments. Our entire world is driven by summaries and abstractions.
You have a point. I also noticed that the philosophical discussion seems light and completely ignores anything before Descartes. That’s a bad sign. Philosophy beginning with Descartes is riddled with all sorts of bad metaphysics in a way that, say, Aristotelian metaphysics is not. And materialism, which falls squarely into the Cartesian tradition, by definition excludes the possibility of intentionality which is central to consciousness.