RE: Consciousness Trilemma
June 7, 2017 at 5:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2017 at 6:02 pm by bennyboy.)
(June 7, 2017 at 10:27 am)Khemikal Wrote: Eliminitivists think that mind is processing. They propose that mind is processing because that's what the brain does. They refer both to behavior and structure as an indication that a creature might might possess what they propose mind to be - hence the quote "we're all p-zombies" from Dennet. They feel that mind is, more accurately, the behavior of a system..and not a thing that we will find in the brain - and all non-eliminitivist theories of mind depend upon it being an actual thing in the brain (sorry, I'm excluding any form of substance dualism here...deal with it).--edit--
Okay, I've thought about your last post a little more, and my question has changed: in a determinist materialism, what's the difference between thing, state, processing and behavior? Isn't "processing" a change of state over time? Isn't "behavior" simply a change of state that is propagating outside the processing system through some interface (say, bodily movements)?
It seems to me that distinguishing among these kind of like saying "this isn't about position-- it's about velocity and time." These are all so closely interrelated that they are mutually dependent.
