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Except it doesn't. Chater frames his argument as a fundamental attack on traditional ideas of consciousness and perception, except I've never seen people argue for the positions he's attacking except in qualified ways or discredited fields. He appears to build straw men so that he can demolish them with interesting but hardly iconoclastic rejoinders ⬇️
Moray_Reads The idea of self-creation, gaps in perception and humans as constantly-evolving products of their own experience isn't really that groundbreaking. The writing is also maddeningly repetitive so that it seems Chater is trying to convince himself as much as the reader by constantly reinterating his basic premise. His insistence that his approach is wildly divergent just highlights the inconsistencies and weaknesses. 6y
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