You used my quote after talking about "Eliminative Materialism," which I do not ascribe to, in many or most cases, and certainly not as a whole theory- again...
OK thanks for the reply and sorry for continuing to misrepresent you. It is not deliberate. 2000 years ago a person may have gotten angry with the chair they...
I was trying to stay out of this fray, if we all just ignore consciousness it will go away. Hey I hope it's Ok to say that in my very unscientific opinion...
Hello Tom etc.. I found a freely available google books copy of the Edwards article that anyone with a cursory interest in Tom Clark's article might want to...
Love the Logo. But once again I'll jump in and express my extreme dislike of the word "Control" To me it sounds free willish. Control infers a controller which...
"will_g_davidson" <will_g_davidson@...> wrote: <I'll jump in and express my extreme dislike of the word "Control" To me it sounds free willish. Control infers...
"will_g_davidson" <will_g_davidson@...> wrote: < I uploaded a paper on Psychological Constructs (in 2 parts). Well worth the read if you are up for it.> Thank...
lemmett@..." <lemmett@...> wrote: < OK thanks for the reply and sorry for continuing to misrepresent you. It is not deliberate. luckylyndon@LyndonP wrote: <...
" <lemmett@...> wrote: <the subject if obviously completely "in" the body and the world but then a subject "is" not an object by definition. science is not the...
PS. to my reply just posted; I realise that I am still rambling/waffling, that my ruminations probably look like the wanderings of an ant on a new foraging...
" <lemmett@... > wrote: <the subject if obviously completely "in" the body and the world but then a subject "is" not an object by definition. science is not...
No wait that reason probably is nonsense.I'll think about what I mean. For naturalists the mind is the entity studied by the sciences - neural correlates or...
If consciousness is indeed a "mere" artefact of our neurological processes of attention, and has no effect on anything, can it be said to exist, according to...
Ouinon (Yes-No, Ja-Nein, ha!), I think it's difficult to deny the reality of conscious sensory states like pain, so I'm a realist about consciousness even...
"Tom Clark" <twc@...> wrote: <Ouinon (Yes-No, Ja-Nein, ha!)> ... Tom Clarke wrote: <I think it's difficult to deny the reality of conscious sensory states like...
PS. The two realities exist side by side; they are artefacts of each other. The objective, empirical, etc one ( as we measure it ) would evaporate at the same...
Ouinon, Here are two paragraphs from a paper I'm working on that are relevant to your question about the reality of consciousness: An entailment of this view...
"Tom Clark" <twc@...> wrote: < So to say that phenomenal consciousness isn't even epiphenomenal, that it can't figure in objective accounts of behavior, isn't...
PS. What I mean is; what "else" might ( our ) representational systems create? I have for a very long time not "believed in" anything supernatural paranormal...
PPS. Realise that last reply was somewhat garbled. I mean that science seems to want to contain consciousness/subjective reality in a very small space; that it...
< But perhaps I misunderstood where exactly you "put" consciousness, and subjective reality, in your analysis?> That's what we're all trying to figure out:...
<Who's to say what "things" might not in fact "exist" because of the power of "representational systems"?> Well, our speculations about what exists should be...
Some humble thoughts or speculations on consciousness, I've been reading up on self-representation lately, and I accept this as an important part of the...
I've nothing really to add to this, I don't read about consciousness or its science just because any solution seems like it would have to be so unintuitive as...
< Lastly, assuming we accept that someone born with your exact same genes and given the same environmental conditions will act the same way you do, I also...
Tom, Are you still writing your blog "Memeing Naturalism?" I have not seen an update since November 14, 2009. If you are still writing a blog, please give me...
Otis, I share some of your concerns, and agree we should be wary of claiming ultimate epistemological justification for holding the views that we have. I also...
Otis mistakenly implies that (certain) knowledge can be secured by abandoning naturalism but the dilemma he raises for naturalism is one that could be posed to...
