I think we have yet to agree on the phenomenon that we are explaining. Is it a first person phenomenon or a third person one?
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Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
From: Friam <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Russ Abbott
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 7:53 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] falsifying the lost opportunity updating mechanism for free will
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 6:22 PM ∄ uǝlƃ <[hidden email]> wrote:
What I'm doing is defining a mechanism that *might* generate the phenomenon of interest. It's typical simulation. If it *cannot* generate the phenomenon, then that falsifies this mechanism, which is what we want, falsifiable hypotheses.
What do you mean by "generate the phenomenon"? If the phenomenon is non-existent, it can't be generated. Even if that weren't a problem, who is to judge whether "the phenomenon" had been generated? And how is that judgment made?
On the other hand, how do you establish that "it *cannot* generate the phenomenon"? That sounds like a pretty hard thing to establish on the basis of empirical evidence.
This all seems to be digging a deeper hole.
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