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Hello all. People were very kind when I originally posted the start of this series. I've refrained from spamming you with every part but I thought I'd post to say the very final installment is done.

I got a bit weird with it this time as I felt like I had an infinite amount to say, all of which only barely got to the underlying point i was trying to make. So much that I wrote I also cut, it's ridiculous.

Anyway now the series is done I'm going to move on to smaller discrete pieces as I work on my book about Tech Culture's propensity to far-right politics. I'll be dropping interesting stuff I find, examples of Right Libertarians saying ridiculous things, so follow along if that's your jam.

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[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shorter: "Minds are computers" can imply views of (1) minds as simpler than they are, (2) computers as potentially very complex and general, or (3) both.

1 and 3 are not only wrong but also bad.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

I guess (4), neither, is also thinkable, but internally quite contradictory.