RE: An intro to my non-materialist view
May 29, 2017 at 9:54 pm
(This post was last modified: May 29, 2017 at 9:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 29, 2017 at 9:42 pm)Bunburryist Wrote: That's not neutral. It's right out of the materialist dictionary.?
Not at all (and representationalism predates materialism, by the by). A representation could be made out of anything, and regardless of what anything is made out of our consciousness is demonstrably a representation.
Yes, I think that a material explanation is the simplest and most parsimonious explanation -for- that representation.....but if it wasn't true, the representation would still exist and require an explanation. That representation, regardless of what it;s made out of, makes the question "Is this experience the material world" moot point. OFC it's not. It's a version of the world, material or otherwise™.
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