Bruno Marchal wrote:
...
> Study the UDA. It is a reasoning which show you are precisely wrong
> here. If you want I can explain it step by step. UDA shows that "weak
> materialism" (the existence of some primitive stuff) and
> computationalism (or just self-referential correctness) are
> epistemologically untenable simultaneously. If you want we can proceed
> step by step (could help some others).
>
>
>
>>He is not obliged to deny that mind has anythign to do with
>>computation, but
>>when he hits problems he can appeal to matter itself -- for instance
>>hypothesising
>>that something about the specific physics/chemistry of the brain
>>explains qualia.
>
>
> But he should first explain what he means by matter, and then qualia
> and how it relates it. If he assumes comp he will fail, by UDA.
>
> bruno
>
>
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
The links on your web page relating to the UDA still take one to
http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?client=netw8744&s=ESCRIBE.COM
a seller of DVD's for old American TV shows.
Brent Meeker
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Received on Mon Mar 27 2006 - 16:14:34 PST