RE: Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?
October 8, 2014 at 5:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2014 at 5:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Chad-
Meh, pride has mass, red has momentum. Why would someone think differently after conceding that "processes in the brain are physical sequences of events." ?
@Genk
There's really no error in describing things this way at all, any more than describing software in terms of hardware...that's what a programming language actually -does-, though often (from the programmers POV), it's backend at worst or shorthand at best. Describing software this way is likely to be more informative (than describing concepts), of course...because we know more about the hardware. That's where the analogy between the two breaks down. Nevertheless, we can indeed describe some concepts and subjective experiences by reference to "hardware".
(more broadly, our experience with emergent algorithms and hueristics -particularly from the POV of hardware- could go a long way in a discussion of concepts and subjective experiences, from the root to the canopy - hardware explains, for example, why these experiences are subjective in the first place)
Meh, pride has mass, red has momentum. Why would someone think differently after conceding that "processes in the brain are physical sequences of events." ?
@Genk
There's really no error in describing things this way at all, any more than describing software in terms of hardware...that's what a programming language actually -does-, though often (from the programmers POV), it's backend at worst or shorthand at best. Describing software this way is likely to be more informative (than describing concepts), of course...because we know more about the hardware. That's where the analogy between the two breaks down. Nevertheless, we can indeed describe some concepts and subjective experiences by reference to "hardware".
(more broadly, our experience with emergent algorithms and hueristics -particularly from the POV of hardware- could go a long way in a discussion of concepts and subjective experiences, from the root to the canopy - hardware explains, for example, why these experiences are subjective in the first place)
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