RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 24, 2016 at 1:13 am
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2016 at 1:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 24, 2016 at 1:03 am)bennyboy Wrote: Eh? League of Legends is not my computer. p0rn is not my monitor. Redness is not an apple. Your way of thinking is so strange to me that I think there's little point trying to argue.I'm not really sure what you mean. The porn on your computer -is- a colleection of physical computational devices. The game, pron, and color on your screen -are- the system. This isn't any way of thinking of mine..it's just how your computer works.
Quote: Let's say the process is this: the brain does some stuff, and I experience that stuff as an imagined unicorn. The unicorn isn't the brain function-- it's a four-legged horse-thingie with one horn.That might be what a unicorn out in the world would be...but we're not talking about one of those, are we? We're talking about a brain function. So what is or isn't true of a unicorn out in the world, if there are any...isn't informative with regards to what we're discussing. A unicorn and a brain function may not be the same thing, but so what? The unicorn of your mind -can- be a brain function. We know that it's possible.
Quote:That you cannot see that the neurological representation of the unicorn and the unicorn as I qualitatively experience it are different is truly mystifying to me.You haven't been talking about nuerological representations or qualitative experience...you've been counting the legs and horns of unicorns as though we were discussing a hard bodied horse rather than a thought about a horse.
Quote:I sincerely don't know where to go from here-- but I see that there are a lot of new shows on now, so maybe it's time to take a break from this.Till next time, I suppose.
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