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Playful Intentions and the Problem of the Hypno-Flirt
By | January 1, 1970
Hi all - and thanks Ken and John for the invitation to be on the show today and to write for this blog.
I liked Ken’s Gricean point about the flirter requiring the intention that his/her intention be recognized by the flirtee, and I just wanted to follow up on that a bit. One case I at first thought this promised to help with is the case of the "hypno-flirt" (which was first suggested to me by David Wall at the Australian National University). The hypno-flirt is a mad scientist who playfully and knowingly inserts electrodes into your brain with the intention of stimulating those parts of the brain which will cause you to think about having sex with her. There’s some reason to doubt she’s flirting, but if all she needs is the playfulness, the knowingness, and the intentions I talk about in my paper (plus the belief that […]
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