Wow. The timing could not have been better. A few hours ago I decided to play hooky on chores for rest of afternoon. My old body needs the break.
Went back out to my shed and got back to working on my introduction an Addendum to my āthesisā. The Addendum will recount a two month exchange between a bona fide Professor of Philosophy tutoring me on the Hard Problem, based on our email exchange.
Got to a finishing point on my intro and brought it to Claude.ai for critique, after a few observations, typo catching, it finished with:
Whatās the one sentence version of your thesis?
I should not have been surprised, yet it made my little gray cells scramble, as I pulled up my āthesisā to look and hope for a nudge, Chalmersā Hard Problem and the Living Moment of Now.
From that set up it did not take long to crystalize it:
The thesis is on challenging the usefulness of the Descartes-Nagel-Chalmers Hard Problem challenge, because it ignores evolutionary biological reality.
Then I turn to CFI a break, see if anything has happen, to find this:
There Is No āHard Problem Of Consciousnessā
I clicked the listen function, sat back, closed my eyes and listened, and found myself transported into a cathedral. That read was wonderful, beautiful and oh so resonate.
I am slightly familiar with Carlos, but I obviously need to read more.
Thank you, thereās some genuine good synchronicity going on there.
Yeah, I see itās been up there a while, but I donāt have many chances to get back here, and hadnāt seen this post until this particular moment.