I have an odd behavior which is to get angry with physical objects which hurt me or frustrate me. This includes calling them "bad names" which I never call humans or animals. Perhaps I should stop this behavior.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Apr 2, 2026, 7:48 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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