(January 24, 2023 at 9:57 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(January 24, 2023 at 9:47 am)emjay Wrote: Okay, well I think that's just the way I may conflate things in my head; that's probably part of this semantic confusion I have in my paradoxes. Depends whether you're defining a mental event as phenomenal consciousness, or as a process; that can be neural and/or phenomenal... I tend to do the latter, and therefore think of them interchangeably, which again may be part of this conflation. As I said, it's a clusterfuck thinking about this
FWIW, what you said was quite clear to me. And I agree, p-zombies could be used as an argument for epiphenomenalism (with some further fleshing out). It doesn't contradict it, in the least.
No worries... I've always figured we're kind of on the same page (or at least within the same book
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