RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
September 29, 2016 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm by Tangra.)
"We" are certainly not the body because if we were then a dead body should still be us were that the case. This is a very involved question. I believe the most poignant question for a philosopher to examine is consciousness/awareness and its properties. There is a reason we are called homo sapiens sapiens.
Therein lies the problem. The established (or even inborn) methods of communication and topics of concern for humans (which for the last however many years our species has existed has been primarily concerned with meeting the first few rungs of Maslow's hierarchy, if lucky) limit the topics of discourse. It's easy to say that there is no answer.
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(September 29, 2016 at 2:06 pm)Rhythm Wrote:[quote pid='1404787' dateline='1475172380']
B-mine, your disclaimer argues against the statement it was invoked to explain.......? Other stuff having been wrong won't make brain/mind wrong. You can assume whatever you like, ofc.
You've got high hopes. Basically, you want one thing to explain a bunch of stuff you don't understand simultaneously, so long as it isn't a materialist theory. Who knows, maybe. A TOE in the grandest sense.
Therein lies the problem. The established (or even inborn) methods of communication and topics of concern for humans (which for the last however many years our species has existed has been primarily concerned with meeting the first few rungs of Maslow's hierarchy, if lucky) limit the topics of discourse. It's easy to say that there is no answer.
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