> On Feb 25, 2025, at 14:50, Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you think that you are better able to predict your own behavior than your 
> partner — or your dog, for that matter — then the evidence is against you. 
> First-person accounts of behavioral causality are notoriously shoddy. I feel 
> that that was a bullet that both Ryle and Dennet were unable to bite.
> 
I must admit that I read this and suspect the data were chosen to be those that 
fall under this outcome.
Sucker-punching wouldn’t work if the puncher were no better at anticipating 
what he would do (meaning, whether he even is a puncher) than the punchee.

It seems that there must be a very large collection of other microscopic daily 
activities that fit a similar description.  I’m thinking of a natural number; 
try to guess which one it is…  I’m supposed to be reviewing this really tedious 
paper, so my mind wanders endlessly to every calculation I wish I were allowed 
to do instead of this.  Do you know, minute by minute, what “image” of the 
structure of which calculation happens to be the object of my procrastination 
daydreaming?  They’re very definite, and sometimes I see next steps in the 
calculations.

But you’re the psychologist, and not I.

Eric



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