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by chongli 4618 days ago
then plainly a mind must be explicable to a sufficiently smart other mind, because after all so is everything else

Right, but is that intelligence? My main argument is basically an attack on the word intelligence. I believe people use it far too frequently and they allow its meaning to change whenever it comes close to being pinned down. In a strange way, intelligence is a tricky refuge for dualism in an otherwise monist world.