i875p

i875p t1_ja5zg0d wrote

It's kind of hard to understand how things like this keep happening. Nagel's argument basically boils down to something like "we, as human beings, are physiologically quite different from bats, and therefore it's very likely that we'll never know how a bat experiences things from the 1st person perspective". It is as science-friendly as philosophy can get.

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i875p t1_iqxk5mt wrote

Just an observation: the lists seem to indicate that the Chinese corpus is largely based on recent government documents/reports and legal codes that are published in book form. I would guess even if one understands the meaning of every word on the 1-grams list, one would still find reading a relatively accessible classical Chinese novel (like the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms) a bit difficult.

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