RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 25, 2017 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2017 at 4:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Epiphenomenalism is the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. Behavior is caused by muscles that contract upon receiving neural impulses, and neural impulses are generated by input from other neurons or from sense organs. On the epiphenomenalist view, mental events play no causal role in this process.https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/
OFC he's a compatibalist...due to his stated opposition to epiphenomenalism. In his view, mental events -can- play a causal role, that causal role is what -he- refers to as free will. It's a free will compatible with determinism..hence, a compatabilist.
That you find Dennets description of qualia unimpressive has absolutely no relevance. So what? There's no requirement that a description of qualia be impressive to you. If you understand that Dennet's position is that qualia is not what it seems to be, then why levy some other unrelated criticism about it? Do you find dennets position...that qualia do not exist as they are described to be....even remotely objectionable?
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