My only current addition to the cacophony is that, after a short and probably not very representative survey of Visser’s site, I found that most posts there were either reading into KW’s stuff that which I didn’t think was there or attributing opinions to KW which I couldn’t see as being justified by any reasonably comprehensive reading of his stuff. Having limited time, I therefore go there rarely.

I’d offer as a metric of the worth of that comment that I have similar problems reading criticisms of Dan Dennett. I very often cannot see how critics who hold that he denies the existence of (the experience of) consciousness get to that position from his writing.

I do have a certain sympathy for whoever it was (Tom?) who thought KW might be catering to the sensibilities of the thirtysomethings with whom he is surrounded and have also found some of the posts by other folks that he quotes in his defence uncomfortably close to sycophancy.

The present moment is a multi-perspectival unfolding of … of … something or other.

Love to All Simon

I think that from a nest of posts by any one blogger, you can get a vivid sense of that person. Whether it is necessary to label people on the color scale, I have my doubts. And whether it is kosher to use inauthenticity to go about understanding people, I have greater doubts.

– Tom Armstrong, Blogmandu