But how do we process this statement by Nick:

On 4/17/20 4:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I think an obsessively metaphorical thinker is one who has the arrogance to 
> suppose that s/he has */some/* familiar experience by which s/he can model 
> any experience of another person.  I actually don't believe that that is 
> true, but I think it is true enough that I feel it is my obligation to try.   

He's straight up *saying* that metaphor is used as a way to solve or gloss over 
the hard problem. Now, I don't particularly care if it's actually Nick we're 
talking about or some other "obssesively metaphorical thinker". But it strikes 
me that one cannot simultaneously believe that all thinking is metaphorical and 
*not* admit to some form of the hard problem.


On 4/29/20 10:11 AM, Eric Charles wrote:
> I think we should take the inadequacy of the wastebasket example as evidence 
> that Nick is being honest about really, really not understanding what the 
> hard problem is.

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