Up until the middle of the 2nd to last paragraph. [sigh]

https://galenstrawson.substack.com/p/consciousness

cf also: https://galenstrawson.substack.com/p/david-hume-was-not-a-humean

But I'm really into the phrase "terminological slum". I think I'd prefer a word other than "slum", 
though. It feels vaguely classist or something. Would anyone who lives in a slum call their neighborhood a 
"slum"? I guess that's kinda my litmus test. If the potential victims _own_ the term, maybe it's OK to use 
it. Having relatives who actually live in swamps, I'm OK with the abuse of that term. I also learned the word 
[duff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_floor) the other day. This is even more apt than swamp, I think. Of the 
parade of thinkers Strawson lists (Solms, Levin, Damasio, etc), my guess is they would be amenable to a kind of Delphi 
method for shrinking the terminological hull surrounding "consciousness". I bet if we tuned 100 or so LLM 
agents, each on one of these denizens of the duff, we could get them to disperse out into the ecosystem proper, some in 
the canopy, some deep in the soil, maybe eliminating the problematic moniker entirely.

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