our familiarity with our own familiar traits and their familiar effects makes imaginable alternatives seem alien
Yes. It's what Nick Bostrom calls an observation selection effect. It's a refusal to think past correlationism, I reckon.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Leaflittering on Plant Sentience
Leaflittering's blog, which I need to look at some more (it's very beautiful), has this great post up on the theme of plant cognition. Here's an exemplary line:
Yes. It's what Nick Bostrom calls an observation selection effect. It's a refusal to think past correlationism, I reckon.
Yes. It's what Nick Bostrom calls an observation selection effect. It's a refusal to think past correlationism, I reckon.
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