This was really good but very dense and frankly an academic-level discussion.
Is this in your wheelhouse, this stuff ? I dabble in it but strictly a hobbiest.
I thought it was pretty digestible for a layperson. And I am definitely a layperson. I've never studied philosophy and, up until recently, thought that most if it is unimportant drivel. Navel gazing.
But I have come around somewhat to realize that maybe navel gazing the big picture stuff is actually kind of interesting. Do I find it to be important in life? .... probably not... I still think the most valuable philosophical endeavours are morality and the philosophy of science. Descartes musing about how we know whether we exist isn't really all that important, since I really have no choice other than to assume that I do.