Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the reader of my blog.
Don’t you mean “the readers”?
No, WordPress says it’s still pretty much just the one.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the reader of my blog.
Don’t you mean “the readers”?
No, WordPress says it’s still pretty much just the one.
December 26, 2021 at 11:38 am |
Merry Christmas! I’d love to see your take on Richard Carrier’s article on consciousness. I have my own thoughts on it, but I’d like to see yours.
https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/19125
December 26, 2021 at 12:48 pm |
That’s on my list, actually.
January 7, 2022 at 4:44 am |
[…] Commenter Tom asked me to look at Richard Carrier’s latest post on consciousness, and I do indeed intend to look at it at some point (it may take me a few weeks to get around to it), but today I want to go way, way back to a post of Carrier’s that I’ve wanted to talk about for a while and didn’t get around to until now, which is about Carrier looking at an attempt by someone called TMM to rescue David Hume’s argument against miracles against a semi-Bayesian analysis raised against it by William Craig. Now, I’m not a fan of Hume’s argument against miracles and not a fan of Bayesian epistemology, so of course I’m going to be highly skeptical of an attempt to save Hume using a Bayesian approach. And in reading this I think I’ve only become more convinced that Bayesian epistemology is not a good approach towards forming beliefs and justifying knowledge. […]
January 21, 2022 at 4:32 am |
[…] I’ve already noted, Tom asked me in a comment to look at this post by Richard Carrier on what it means to say that consciousness is an […]