RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 23, 2017 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2017 at 6:50 pm by Succubus.)
(May 23, 2017 at 6:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (*Hat-tip Maverick Philosopher, here)
It appears that of the following three propositions only two can be true:
1) Conscious experience is not an illusion.
2) Conscious experience has an essentially subjective character that purely physical processes do not share.
3) The only acceptable explanation of conscious experience is in terms of physical properties alone.
I must hand it to Maverick Philosopher because this trilemma so neatly identifies and clarifies the dominant positions with respect to philosophy of mind. Like him, I am inclined to accept 1) and 2) which entails that I must reject 3). I have some inkling of where other AF members would place their bets but it would be nice to let people weight in and see where the discussion leads.
From your link:
Quote:Welcome to the third and latest incarnation of Maverick Philosopher.
I began began this weblog in May of 2004...
Is this going to be a long introduction?
Quote:A lot of what I write here is unpolished and tentative. I explore the cartography of ideas along many paths. Here below we are in statu viae, and it is fitting that our thinking should be exploratory, meandering, and undogmatic. Nothing human, and thus nothing philosophical, is foreign to me.Makes perfect sense.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.