Total Eclipse

Reading Thomas Nagel’s seminal “What is it like to be a bat?” There is a mantra I find myself repeating:
THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY.
Some food for thought, emphasis mine.
[There's a paper here, waiting to be written, about the relation of a presupposed subjective character of experience, the myth of the given, esoteric and exoteric [...]

The paradigmatic example of a sentence a physicalist holds true is “Pain is the firing of C Fibers.” This is an identity claim; It’s not that an action potential in C-Fibers causes pain, but rather that if we come to know the true nature of pain, it simply is firing of C-Fibers. Even most Functionalist [...]

This is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos and Complexity (given by the wonderfully -talented but stingy on the grade Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov, who I wholeheartedly recommend studying with if you ever have the chance). I figured since it was in English, I may as well post it here for posterity. [...]