RE: Mind is the brain?
March 16, 2016 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2016 at 1:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 16, 2016 at 11:48 am)bennyboy Wrote:I see, so we won't be acknowledging the absurdity of the question you asked, then..will we? We'll jump off to some other pool because the water was no longer to our liking? Relevance fallacy.(March 16, 2016 at 11:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: I have a tablet powered down right here in front of me...what do you think it's computing?Nothing. But I'm not asserting that Windows is a CPU.
Quote:Do you really need an answer to that? I mean, I can list the ways, but. . . ru serius?Very, because we're going to need to list out ways that those two examples of yours are unique in relation to something -other- than what they're made out of, specifically..you'll need to explain how they are unique as regards mind, or comp, or processing. Otherwise, you're continuing to pull the constant relevance fallacy refrain.
Quote:I don't care about processing and comp unless it addresses qualia as what it's like to experience things.Which it does, even in your own case. Hello Annie. You're simply not satisfied.
Quote:I didn't say the computer has nothing to do with my qualia. I said that there are probably no qualia in the computer-- at least not of the type you are describing.You keep using the word "in".....and that's probably keeping you from understanding just this one type of material explanation for qualia.
Quote:Links.You have google, I'm tired of your demands, and it isn't as though satisfying them will change your position...you'll refuse to even acknowledge my response for what it was, -just as you did here-.
Quote:I keep telling you that santas workshop doesn't exist and you keep responding by demanding that I point it out on a map.
Right. There's no single place. And yet, there are my water bottle, an old beer bottle, the sound of my dog snoring, the smell of my dinner leftovers, and at the center of it is me, my agency. Where is it? Give me even a plausible lead.
Quote:Maybe. The Buddhists would probably agree with you, I think.Broken clocks are right twice a day. Buddhists and I agree on a great many trivialities. We disagree strongly with regards to any substantial portion of an explanation for mind.
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