(May 25, 2017 at 9:38 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 24, 2017 at 9:36 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Oh. That sounds like word salad to me. The word "consciousness" is about something-- and you don't have to be able to define exactly WHAT that something is when you open your eyes in the morning and become aware that you are experiencing things. You can't really call labels illusions; you can only call our perceptions of whatever we made the label for mistaken.
I wouldn't call that position, eliminative materialism, word salad. I just think it is incoherent, an empirical argument leveled against empiricism. The eliminativists are basically saying that the experiences of observers who don't actually exist aren't really about anything.
Meh. I'm capable of solving that philosophical crisis by opening my eyes in the morning and watching the sun rise. Again, I don't have to be able to accurately or completely define myself to know that somebody is watching the sun, and that people keep calling that somebody Benjamin.
