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[langostino]

Several things have come to me via this post at Maverick Philosopher:

1. There is no limit to how otherwise-intelligent someone can be and still revert to dualism.
2. (Corollary) Even people who are intellectually rigorous and honest are liable to caricature their opponents' positions.
3. Philosophers and others care too damn much about when things are and are not 'identical'.
4. Nearly every argument against materialism eventually involves a claim of the form "Materialism is false because X is just obvious!".

I feel like I die a little inside every time I read a philosopher whose name isn't Daniel Dennett.