Jesse Mazer wrote:
> But "natural laws" are usually taken to be contingent, we can imagine
> possible worlds where they are different--can you have "supervenience" under
> logical laws, or any other laws which must be the same in all possible
> worlds?
natural laws ae the same in all naturally possible worlds.
> I wasn't saying it would be mathematically necessary, I was thinking of some
> kind of vague notion of metaphysical necessity where a better understanding
> of consciousness would show that qualia are by nature certain kinds of
> causal patterns experienced "from the inside",
Well, it's hard to imagine pain being anything other
than painful!
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Received on Thu Jul 20 2006 - 19:02:52 PDT