RE: Short essay on dualism, idealism, & materialism as concerns Q: What is a table?
February 27, 2017 at 3:02 am
(February 26, 2017 at 10:03 pm)Mudhammam Wrote: It's an interesting idea but does it mitigate any of the problems for materialism that the Cogito supposedly creates?Problems specifically for eliminative materialism...you mean? I don't think that anything can mitigate the problems eliminitivism has with cogito, in it's strongest application.
Quote:Is it uninformative to conceive "mind" as a distinct entity which is greater than the sum of its parts, rather than merely as a concept which signifies nothing in reality but the collective operation of those parts?If the eliminative position is even partially accurate most of our concepts regarding mind are uninformative, no matter what they are.
Quote: It seems like an identity problem still remains (recall the "ship of Theseus") and not one that that is purely theoretical or a matter of definition, as is the case with "nations", but that an actual (and perhaps fundamental) process remains unexplained and prone to the criticisms upon which all forms of body-mind dualism establish themselves.That's not an identity problem, you're describing....that's an argument from ignorance.
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