Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

[DLJ]

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Are you interested in breaking down the syllogism Neo, or @DLJ ?

I didn't give it careful study, but if I do, I wonder if I'll share Lycan's conclusion that both premises are false. And (even if they are false) I wonder if the materialist can't construct a less ambitious argument with true premises.

Did you mean the Pain-related sillygism?  That's one of bits I couldn't fathom.

So yes, I'm certainly interested in being educated.

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So let's discuss this. One point I thought was salient was Lycan's defense of the interaction problem, namely that we don't fully understand causality-- period. And that comes to bear when considering how minds causally interact with bodies. That's an excellent point. And I think he's correct here.

One objection that I came up with (not featured in the paper) concerns Lycan's suggestion that the Cartesian abandon nonspaciality.
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My main objection is that there doesn't seem to be an adequate explanation anywhere of what 'the mind' actually is.  
Which is why I've come to the conclusion that it does not exist - which does make it non-spatial, now I think about it

Definitions I've found put it in the Pragmatic Information Layer (I can elaborate on Info Layers if asked)... hence above mentioning that it exists in the same way that 'the sky' exists i.e. it doesn't.

But I'm still in the dualist camp - although not in the way Descartes meant it, I think.  

(I've got a lot on next week so I might be tardy in replying).