Philosophy-of-mind Twitter is where smart people sound like medieval scholastics
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-29
AndyMasley argues philosophy-of-mind discourse on Twitter is the one place he consistently sees very smart people make telos-style fallacies — like claiming rocks can't orbit Earth because their telos is to be close to the ground — a jab at AI consciousness debates.
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