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I am confused by the depth of feeling against my fairly mild posting which I thought many LWers would value.
One of the first postings that I read on LW was How an Algorithm Feels from Inside and another was Wrong Questions. I was so impressed that I began reading the blog regularly. What I noticed was that many of the contributors seemed to have a very different idea of what thought was than I had or that I felt those two great postings had. In particular I had trouble with two recurring areas: what is consciousness? and how are decisions made?. I have attempted a post on both. The reception has been equally hostile to both. It appears that I misjudged the group and that there is very little interest in a more scientific approach to these questions.
Consider the post 'dead in the water'.
I voted this up before reading it carefully. As is usual, admission of having made a mistake should get an upvote-- if I'd read to the end first, I'd have seen the undefined claim that you're using a more scientific approach.
Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to cancel my upvote, but knocking the comment down to -1 seems too harsh.
The post in question was a plea to look at and follow the neuroscience of decision making. That was the point. Don't worry about the straw men - just follow the science. I am actually not that interested in freewill and want to get past that to something interesting. When I carefully define how I am using a word (like freewill or like consciousness in the last post) I don't expect to be told that I cannot use the word that way. I was taken back by the reaction, that is all. Here are a bunch of reasonable, rational, intelligent people that I should be able to converse with and they appear to avoid being sensible about neuroscience. Too bad - I can still gain from following the discussions but I cannot give anything to the group except the odd comment, now and then. Don't worry about the up vote - I can avoid ever using it.
Clicking the "Vote up" link again should remove the vote.