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@c_gajewski @punishmenthurts
[edited for typo]Call me sceptical, but I have two issues to get over first.
1) We are still struggling to understand what consciousness means/is, so anything written/thought about it is very much in the realms of a *postulates*; and,
2) The discourse on the subject is Euro-centric and leaves other major civilisations aside.
Disclosure: I know nothing about the subject of your masto conversation. But it doesn’t indicate a lack of interest.
If I’m budding in and it’s bothersome, just tell me off… nicely please.
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I have folders full of published manuscripts, folders containing books ready to publish, and folders containing drafts that need editing—these will remain dead for eternity. Picture this: “The book you submitted for review is in illusion, you aphantasic moppet.”
Just kidding. A Fantastic Theory of Mind is (a)live and kicking.
Hip, Hip. Hurray!
Have a look: https://link.amazon/B0chThTz9
#SimulationTheory #PhilosophyOfMind #Aphantasia #MentalImagery #Ethicshttps://cristinagherghel.substack.com/p/a-fantastic-theory-of-mind-the-book
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No equation precedes the pain. The body does not model the wound of the Other; it transduces it. No mental simulation is required when the self is not a mirror, but a conductor."
I’ve published a new research paper examining the structural dissociation between empathy, moral valuation, and simulation-based models of social cognition.
Open access on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17943145
#Empathy
#Aphantasia
#MentalImagery
#CognitiveScience
#PhilosophyOfMind
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@Brains Nanay's SEP-entry on Mental Imagery is also a good read and, more importantly, open-access, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/
#imagination #mental #imagery #mentalImagery #philosophyOfMind #philosophy #psychology
