Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

[vulcanlogician]

@Neo-Scholastic

Dude, there is a wonderful series of Oxford lectures being posted to YouTube on Philosophy Overdose. I highly recommend subscribing to the channel.

This is the first lecture. There are many more. The lectures are great, but I recommend skipping the parts when the class asks her questions. For some reason, a great many of the students present insist on wasting the lecturer's time rather than asking relevant questions. It's SO annoying, and as the series goes on, it really becomes agitating. Trust me. It may not bother you at first, but it soon will.

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The series really gets into the nitty gritty of causality. It demonstrates that, while causality is present in all of our ordinary experiences, we really don't understand jack shit about it. This makes Lycan's defense of mind-body causality quite valid.

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

That's the one. Here it is:

1. Pain = Whatever state of a person plays role P (being typically caused by
tissue damage, and in turn causing wincing, crying out, withdrawal,
favouring, etc.) [We know this a priori; we have all got the concept of
pain.]
2. The occupant of role P = the firing of c-fibres (i.e., it is c-fibre firings that
are typically caused by tissue damage, etc.).10 [Discovered empirically by
neuroscientists.]

[therefore]

3. Pain = the firing of c-fibres. QED

It is rather difficult. But not impossible to parse out.