Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

From: David Nyman <david.nyman.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:31:53 -0700 (PDT)

On Sep 17, 11:17 pm, Flammarion <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden> wrote:

> > Has it? I thought we were discussing whether CTM made any meaningful
> > commitments as a physical theory, not whether physics can or can't
> > include consciousness per se. Now you raise the question, I don't
> > believe it can, simply because in common with virtually every other
> > human attempt to characterise the world, its perspective is embedded
> > in consciousness and hence can't envision it.
>
> Unless consciousnes is just the very thing that envision itself.

Just so. But what is opaque is its relation to physics.

David

> On 17 Sep, 00:02, David Nyman <david.ny....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> > Has it?  I thought we were discussing whether CTM made any meaningful
> > commitments as a physical theory, not whether physics can or can't
> > include consciousness per se.  Now you raise the question, I don't
> > believe it can, simply because in common with virtually every other
> > human attempt to characterise the world, its perspective is embedded
> > in consciousness and hence can't envision it.
>
> Unless consciousnes is just the very thing that envision itself.
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