Re: The difference between a 'chair' concept and a 'mathematical concept' ;)

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:52:38 +1000

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:35:05AM -0700, 1Z wrote:
>
> The idea that materialism is not compatible with computationalism
> is a bold and startling claim.

Materialism comes in a couple of different flavours. The one that COMP
is incompatible with is "eliminative materialism", also sometimes
known as physicalism.

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Received on Mon Oct 09 2006 - 21:52:56 PDT