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

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:36:30 -0700

Russell Standish wrote:
> 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.

That's hardly surprising. EM says consciousness doesn't exist,
computationalism says it does. Just about everything contradicts EM.


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