(January 28, 2016 at 12:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 19, 2016 at 4:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: The Mary's room' thought experiment doesn't really disprove physicalism though...Mary was -intentionally- deprived of the PHYSICAL experience of seeing color!Not exactly. Mary was deprived of the physical data set necessary to experience color. The thought experiment focuses on whether any kind of monist reduction is possible. It takes no particular stand with respect to supervenience.
K...would you mind rephrasing your above thoughts in a manner that a person (me) who does not have a Ph.D. In philosophy or theology can more easily understand? Your esoteric language is very annoying, and at times seems intentionally obfuscating...
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.