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Wayne responds to my earlier blog about his proposal. My first response is, “You are obviously deep in research on your proposal, whereas I have not done any serious philosphy since I graduated in 1997.” (Read: I’m rusty.)

However, this statement stands out: “Moreover, how would one even verify that first person reports are generally correct?” I think perhaps this is really the crux of my discomfort. Essentially, questioning an agent’s reports about internal processes gets into competing argumentia ad ignorantia. In general, we trust a person’s reports about internal states, unless we know that individual to be unreliable in toto, because we have no means of objective disconfirmation.

That’s not really a response. I need to digest more of Wayne’s blog. That’s more of a note on the smell of the food.

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