RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 22, 2016 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 11:02 am by bennyboy.)
(September 22, 2016 at 5:36 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: You're assuming your conclusion that brain function and experience are distinct. If they are not, then there may come a day when I can "poke the redness in your brain."I don't know what poking a color would even mean. However, if you did do that, it wouldn't be with a pin-- it would be with a virtual pin, perhaps-- the stimulated simulation of a pin in the imagination.
You cannot equate things which must be interacted with in different ways.
Quote:Therefore it doesn't follow that what your brain is doing cannot be experience.The brain might be experiencing, but the physical mechanism and the experience are still different properties. One is a state of a mass of electrons in neuronal tissue-- the other is the subjective understanding of what it's like to experience things.
Quote:Why on earth would I expect to find a unicorn in your head. I would expect to find the image or representation of a unicorn in your head.Wait a minute, we weren't talking about whether brain function or state REPRESENTS experiences. We were talking about whether brain function IS experience. These are not the same question.
