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Joscha Bach has written a blog post criticizing my suggestion that the universe as a whole is, in a sense, akin to a cosmic nervous system. ...Bach and I have engaged... in an extensive email exchange discussing precisely the points he brought up in his blog post. ...[H]e chose to make his criticisms public now, whilst ignoring the many clarifications I sent him by email back then. ...Bach's criticisms are straw-men; every single one of them.

— Bernardo Kastrup on Joscha Bach

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Joscha Bach has written a blog post criticizing my suggestion that the universe as a whole is, in a sense, akin to a cosmic nervous system. ...Bach and I have engaged... in an extensive email exchange discussing precisely the points he brought up in his blog post. ...[H]e chose to make his criticisms public now, whilst ignoring the many clarifications I sent him by email back then. ...Bach's criticisms are straw-men; every single one of them." in the context of "Bernardo Kastrup, "The 'cosmic nervous system': response to Joscha Bach" (Jan 26, 2013)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bernardo Kastrup

About Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch computer scientist and philosopher at the Eindhoven University of Technology.