
Friendship is Magic | Samuel Kimbriel
Brain in a Vat
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The Davidson Case Study of Falling Above the First Time
Sally Kohn: I think my intuition diverges there, which is I don't actually think that it's logically possible or yeah. So a swamp man has the same mental states as let's say you Samuel. But he pops into existence fully formed. Doesn't that seem logically possible? And if that is logically possible, then doesn't that show that it's at least logically possible to be fully formed as a human with no social interaction previously whatsoever? She says we are very complexly layered beings where the there is like a background set of competencies or capabilities that we have and then those play out in wildly contingent and uncertain ways.
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