Day 0322

Soggy day, stayed inside and read, stared into space, waited for the appointed hour to pick up my sister. Spent so long figuring out logistics for going down to Hampton Court tomorrow, a huge waste of time and energy being indecisive. Strange the trivialites that fill my days, and yet I only spent an hour doing my drawing.

Reading The Mechanical Mind by Tim Crane, the philosopher who didn't impress me in the artificial intelligence talk I went to the other day. Trying to understand why he argues against reductionism, and denies that everything should be fundamentally reducible to physics, a view I strongly hold.

Object strongly to the almost wilfully obscure jargon, the academic style in general. As a web designer I spend a lot of time thinking about user experience, and how to make it easy for users to achieve their goals. As a 'user' of this 'introduction to the computational theory of mind', my goal of learning is constantly obstructed by needless obfuscation. Example: intentionality and intensionality; two almost-identical words meaning different things, and not what you would think. Scrap and replace with something lucid!