RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 30, 2022 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2022 at 2:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 29, 2022 at 10:38 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Substance is not a concept of physics. It comes from Scholasticism. So IMO at least some of the mind-body problem stems from mixing the nomenclature of two very different conceptual frameworks.
Yeah, maybe. Yet another argument for abandoning scholasticism.
(January 30, 2022 at 8:38 am)Lobster Lover Wrote:
(January 26, 2022 at 8:53 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: [...]people who hold to the hard problem will insist that none of those things explain whatever their thing is. That's the entire gimmick to begin with - explicitly stated.
We perhaps fundamentally disagree, as you seem rather Dennettian in your thinking. Nonetheless, although I technically agree that there is no hard problem of consciousness I do think that there is a hard problem of matter.
No problems for physicalism or mentalism, though (not talking about pseudo-scientific 'mentalism', I'm literally talking about the notion that everything is mental. As a monist I see that everything is both mental and physical. That is not necessarily to say that everything is conscious. Although, it depends what we mean).
Ish. It's become pretty clear that the little man behind the eyes is not what he represents himself as. Dennet, I think, can demonstrate that in a number of entertaining ways. Some people take this to imply that we're illusory in some meaningful way. I don't think so. We're just not what we thought or think we are. Won't be the first time.
A hard problem of matter? That sounds interesting. Something like...if we discovered everything there was to discover about material interaction, everything that causes it, everything it can do - the universe will still be fundamentally or at least partially inexplicable? An open question sort of issue?
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