Pardon the melodrama. This is a tough conceptual block to chip away at. HCI research and any tentative breakthroughs in AR/VR might not lend any favors to convince people that digital environments are not ideal surrogates for the real world, or as complimentary to the world in the way that I think more even-keeled people would like to believe. The same goes for technologically-driven existential malaise. And people who refer to their Obsidian vaults and collections of linked Org-mode files as their "second brains".
replyIf you've debated any dualists please share your notes, win or loss.
> If you've debated any dualists
replyDualists in what sense? Mind-body dualists?
That's right.
replyAh, ok. I can't say I've ever argued with any in person, but of course there's a vast philosophical literature full of such arguments, of which I've read a fair amount. As far as I can tell, no such argument has ever really changed anyone's mind.
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