RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 24, 2020 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2020 at 8:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-another fun example of a stolen concept and consciousness.
If/When an eliminativist refers to the "cartesian theater" in a functional description of consciousness. If a guy like Dennett, for example, needed to claim a soul (by any name) in order to express his position, then he would have a stolen concept fallacy on his hands.
Dennett...obviously, famous for his criticism of this sort of thing. In fact, it's a position on this particular issue that place Chalmers and Dennett as far apart on the speculative spectrum as could be imagined. Two wholly disparate views on consciousness. Most people will fall somewhere between the two if they consider the subject. I think that this probably indicates value in both positions. Each side, if you will..has something true and informative to say about consciousness. If that were the case, then it's easy to see why a person who tended more toward Dennet or Chalmers would want to avail themselves of some portion of the others content.
Similarly, Dennett and Chalmers are both unavailable to an even wider set of positions about consciousness, but present a tempting body of (asserted)facts for the same reasons described above.
If/When an eliminativist refers to the "cartesian theater" in a functional description of consciousness. If a guy like Dennett, for example, needed to claim a soul (by any name) in order to express his position, then he would have a stolen concept fallacy on his hands.
Dennett...obviously, famous for his criticism of this sort of thing. In fact, it's a position on this particular issue that place Chalmers and Dennett as far apart on the speculative spectrum as could be imagined. Two wholly disparate views on consciousness. Most people will fall somewhere between the two if they consider the subject. I think that this probably indicates value in both positions. Each side, if you will..has something true and informative to say about consciousness. If that were the case, then it's easy to see why a person who tended more toward Dennet or Chalmers would want to avail themselves of some portion of the others content.
Similarly, Dennett and Chalmers are both unavailable to an even wider set of positions about consciousness, but present a tempting body of (asserted)facts for the same reasons described above.
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