RE: What do you lose if you simply accept...

From: Jonathan Colvin <jcolvin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:33:39 -0700

> >Lee corbin wrote: Pratt's disdain follows from the obvious failures of
> other models.
> > It does not take a logician or mathematician or philosopher of
> > unbelievable IQ to see that the models of monism that have
> been advanced have a fatal flaw:
> > the inability to prove the necessity of epiphenomena. Maybe Bruno's
> > theory will solve this, I hold out hope that it does; but
> meanwhile,
> > why can't we consider and debate alternatives that offer a view
> > ranging explanations and unifying threads, such as Pratt's
> Chu space idea?
>
> I just have to say that I have utterly no sense that anything
> here needs explanation.

I have to agree. Perhaps it is because I'm a Denett devotee, brainwashed
into a full denial of qualia/dualism, but I've yet to see any coherent
argument as to what there is anything about consciousness that needs
explaining. The only importance I see for consciousness is its role in
self-selection per Bostrom.

Jonathan Colvin
Received on Tue May 17 2005 - 01:35:48 PDT