(June 5, 2017 at 9:13 am)Khemikal Wrote:(June 5, 2017 at 4:40 am)bennyboy Wrote: I don't think eliminative materialism IS a position on how the brain might achieve these things. I think it's mainly the philosophical position that certain views best be avoided on grounds they aren't represented in any observable material reality. In other words, it tells us what NOT to think, not what to think, amirite?
The difference is semantic.
Oh yeah? Okay. . . take a position on what mind is, or any of its states. Tell us how to identify what material systems do or do not experience qualia.
My prediction is we're back to brain-waving and question-begging assumptions by materialists who simply cannot explain mind or explain exactly what allows for it.
