RE: The Philosophy of Mind: Zombies, "radical emergence" and evidence of non-experiential
April 21, 2018 at 10:54 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2018 at 10:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Your issues with dennet are your issues with dennet. I've given up on trying to crack that nut. I'm simply pointing out that you interpretation of science being "on your side" begins with a fundamental, but subtle mistake. That if there were some other way to achieve x, or that if x had bundled risks or functional defects..x would be useless.
There's no need for me to strawman you, because I agree with you...there are many ways life has found to achieve behavior x.
Let me ask you this, would you consider a brainless consciousness ( or intelligence, for that matter) useful..if it produced the behaviors, or at least some behavior, we take to be useful in ourselves? In a previous context, are wings the benefit, or is flight the benefit?
There's no need for me to strawman you, because I agree with you...there are many ways life has found to achieve behavior x.
Let me ask you this, would you consider a brainless consciousness ( or intelligence, for that matter) useful..if it produced the behaviors, or at least some behavior, we take to be useful in ourselves? In a previous context, are wings the benefit, or is flight the benefit?
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