One long circular argument (2017)

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by KqAmJQ7 • 3 years ago

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msla5• 3 years ago

If you want a non-materialist account of mind, start doing experiments where materialism fails. Otherwise, you don't have a case.

This article is a long, exquisitely-written account of why rocks fall up on Wednesday.

daseiner13• 3 years ago

Verificationism isn't some stunning riposte. Call it a god in the gaps if you'd like, but there's no straightforward route from matter -> qualia.

msla5• 3 years ago

Verificationism isn't some stunning riposte.

No, it's the minimum required to be taken seriously.

oluckyman• 3 years ago

From the article:

Dennett models the mind on the idea of the computer. But computers are the products of human designers. Hence it makes no sense to try to explain the mind in terms of computers, since the existence of a computer itself presupposes the existence of a designing mind.

I read no further.

chickenimprint• 3 years ago

It wasn't worth pushing through. The other arguments are equally as incoherent until it gets to the hard problem of consciousness, which seems to a problem for the author to explain concisely.

Kim_Bruning• 3 years ago

I had trouble earlier, but in the end that was also my stopping point.

One long circular argument (2017)

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