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Kaj_Sotala comments on A Rationalist's Bookshelf: The Mind's I (Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, 1981) - Less Wrong
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Overall I was disappointed by the Mind's I when I read it a few years ago. I felt that it didn't tell me anything that wasn't already obvious from "getting" reductionism, and I felt that they hype surrounding it oversold it: it didn't actually advance my understanding of consciousness. Thanks for the review; perhaps you could add a shorter summary, because there's no way I am reading all that!
I was disappointed as well. The stories were cute, and several were genuinely clever, but for the most part that was the extent of the depth. The bit in "Where Am I?" where they kept wondering where a person remote-controlling a robotic body and seeing through its senses "really" was? Geh. Semantic nonsense that could've easily been dispelled by tabooing it.