On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:38, Brent Meeker wrote:
> Talk about consciousness will seem as quaint
> as talk about the elan vital does now.
Then you are led to eliminativism of consciousness. This makes MEC+MAT
trivially coherent. The price is big: consciousness does no more
exist, like the "elan vital". MEC becomes vacuoulsy true: I say yes to
the doctor, without even meaning it. But it seems to me that
consciousness is not like the "elan vital". I do make the, admittedly
non sharable, experience of consciousness all the time, so it seems to
me that such a move consists in negating the data. If the idea of
keeping the notion of primitive matter, which I recall is really an
hypothesis, is so demanding that I have to abandon the idea that I am
conscious, I will abandon the hypothetical notion of primitive matter
instead.
But you make my point.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list.domain.name.hidden
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe.domain.name.hidden
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Received on Sun Nov 23 2008 - 06:48:18 PST