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by Vecr 650 days ago
In your (apparently well researched) opinion, is this post more or less intelligible than R. S. Bakker's "The Last Magic Show"/Blind Brain Theory?

This one has less wacky diagrams, and also is more vague and thus less easily falsifiable.

On the other hand apparently there's a soul involved.

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Bakker's concepts, insomuch as they can be defined and I have an understanding of what he tried to define, represent the conclusions of Daniel Dennett's "user illusion" via the mechanisms of Hofstadter's strange loop.

Both ideas are better discussed by their original authors than Bakker's strange bootleg. This post's philosophical soup is somehow even less convincing and coherent than Bakker.