RE: The Philosophy of Mind: Zombies, "radical emergence" and evidence of non-experiential
April 28, 2018 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2018 at 4:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 28, 2018 at 4:03 pm)bennyboy Wrote: The question is this-- will all that seeming mean that a new species has arisen with a new take on enjoyment? Or will the beauty of the sunset cease to exist in any meaningful way because there's nobody left with the capacity to actually experience it? I very strongly suspect the latter to be the case.The first part is incoherent. Machines aren't subject to biological classification.
The latter part is.....well... the beauty of the sunset either exists or doesn't exist independently of any particular observers appraisal or ability to appraise. Those observers refer to those things x about the object in order to establish that beauty..and though they don't all agree on what is (or what makes something) beautiful..if "that particular shade of pastel orange" is the justification for the appraisal.....then..yes, that particular shade of orange exists before and after anyone (or anything) that could appreciate does. Unappreciated beauty isn't exactly controversial, which reduces your conclusion that the beauty ceases to exist fundamentally baseless. It would have to be without referent, not referee....for that terminus to be true in any meaningful sense.
You're imagining a future in which there is no one (or no thing) to see beauty..not a future in which beauty does not exist to be beheld.
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