Re: Dreaming On

From: David Nyman <david.nyman.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:44:50 -0700 (PDT)

On 31 July, 11:43, 1Z <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden> wrote:

> There are many bad solutions too. Finding a good solution
> means having an exat grasp of the problem, not saying in some
> vague way that mind and matter are different things.

Do elaborate. It would be really helpful to have an exactly stated
exposition of the problem as you grasp it, with any explicit angles of
attack you may have to propose.

David

> On 31 July, 10:03, Bruno Marchal <marc....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 31 Jul 2009, at 10:32, 1Z wrote (to David):
>
> > > But you haven't said what the problem is in the emergence of the
> > > mental
> > > from the physical
>
> > It is usually called the mind-body problem. There are many good book
> > on the subject.
>
> There are many bad solutions too. Finding a good solution
> means having an exat grasp of the problem, not saying in some
> vague way that mind and matter are different things.
>
> > My own work is partially a reformulation of that problem (and
> > partially a beginning of a solution), when taking Mechanism seriously
> > into account.
>
> > Tell us which step in UDA you have a problem of understanding with.
> > Give us a number between 01 and 8, and a justification. OK?
>
> I don't have a problem in understanding anything. I have  a problem
> in granting Platonism. Without Platonism, there is no UDA "just
> there".
> wihout a UDA there are no generated minds, without generated minds
> there is no illusory matter. At best you have an alternative to
> materalism-realism,
> not a disproof of it.
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