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Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
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RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis
Yep.  That's what happens when an arguments premises can be accepted or denied and still not resolve into the position for which it was constructed, more egregiously, when they can just as easily resolve - either way- into a mutually contradictory position that the argument was specifically constructed to deny.  It becomes categorically inconclusive regardless of validity. Reducing any question of validity to a discussion of game theory.

Problem?  Perhaps you'd like to dive in further..to see why the foundational underpinnings were laid as such?  Easy enough, to force his "opponent" into a representationalist position from which he then, hilariously, offers an argument from ignorance to.  Ala...can you conceive of any way that these representations might interact with ordinary objects?  OFC...in the 1700's....not only was such a mechanism inconceivable it toed the line with the problem of interaction.  A convenient way to eliminate dualism in ignorance while purporting to be a skeptic.  

Berekeley.....and you know he would...continues, to provide an explanation of a monist idealist "substance" attributed to fucking ghosts, all in order to solve problems that his own confused and inconclusive arguments, themselves..created....and ends up with an explanation that sounds suspiciously like...you guessed it...material monism.  

Discuss, lol.
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Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by Won2blv - February 13, 2017 at 11:04 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by Won2blv - February 14, 2017 at 12:04 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 14, 2017 at 2:02 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 14, 2017 at 8:00 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 14, 2017 at 12:34 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by Won2blv - February 15, 2017 at 11:50 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 15, 2017 at 2:37 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 15, 2017 at 11:14 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 15, 2017 at 11:42 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 15, 2017 at 11:02 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 16, 2017 at 11:22 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 16, 2017 at 6:23 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 16, 2017 at 9:33 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 16, 2017 at 12:57 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by DLJ - February 17, 2017 at 9:21 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 17, 2017 at 8:26 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 18, 2017 at 10:29 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 18, 2017 at 11:54 am
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by Won2blv - February 18, 2017 at 12:57 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by emjay - February 18, 2017 at 1:37 pm
RE: Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis - by The Grand Nudger - February 21, 2017 at 1:20 pm

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