I think there’s a deeper metaphysical approach available that works better here, where the universal is not prior to its realization but comes to be through it. Levin has the useful concept of a rewritten target…
I think “Alien Mind” gets the framing wrong at quite a fundamental level, and a bad framing makes us seek the wrong remedies. Alien suggests something independently constituted, whose purposes we then have to discover…
I think there’s a deeper metaphysical approach available that works better here, where the universal is not prior to its realization but comes to be through it. Levin has the useful concept of a rewritten target…
I think “Alien Mind” gets the framing wrong at quite a fundamental level, and a bad framing makes us seek the wrong remedies. Alien suggests something independently constituted, whose purposes we then have to discover…