RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 25, 2017 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2017 at 12:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 25, 2017 at 9:38 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: 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.
No, they're not. See, that Dennet quote is so useful.
Here's another quote, and a link, so that you can learn about the positions you're constantly tripping over.
Quote:Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is the claim that people's common-sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist. It is a materialist position in the philosophy of mind.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism
I know, I know, it sounds so radical.....that we might have to rethink the notions of mind a bunch of primitives came up with in the absence of nueroscience. Perish the thought. Next thing you know cats will marry dogs, the justice system will collapse, people will become amoral monsters, and it will be armageddon..and then, by god, then.....we'll really wish we'd believed in ghosts.
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