Le 14-mai-05, à 07:44, Lee Corbin a écrit :
> No, it is not "just erroneous". I know of many thoughtful
> people, and include myself as one of them, who believe that
> the so-called mind body problem is some sort of verbal or
> linguistic problem.
I can agree with that, but then we should solve that linguistic problem.
> We see it as arising most likely in the
> minds of people who think there must be a deeper explanation
> for why highly advanced products of natural selection can
> report their internal states.
No. That's easy to explain. The problem is that any third person
explanation suppress the need of the first person and its qualia, etc.
> And the aforesaid "we" don't think that anything needs explaining.
> Almost everyone reading this believes that an AI program could be
> written such that even if you single-step through it, it will
> report on its feelings, and that they'll be no less genuine than
> ours. And from this, I conclude that in all likelihood, there really
> isn't a problem.... :-)
Big discoveries has made by people who sees problems where others take
things for granted. Einstein did see Maxwell equations were
problematical with galileo relativity.
We could have sty in our cavern considering that the only serious
problem is finding ways to eat and escaping to be east.
You can read the good nook by Michael Tye, which introduces very gently
some facets on the mind-body problem:
Tye, M. (1995). Ten problems of consciousness. The MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Sun May 15 2005 - 10:20:41 PDT