RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 7, 2012 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2012 at 6:22 pm by Whateverist.)
(June 7, 2012 at 5:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Yes. Philosophies come and go and can be held onto regardless of if they are shit or not. People make claims in the form of "ideas" and that is a much less complicated word and does NOT have the dogmatism of "philosophy", thus people are LESS likely to cling to it if it is a mere idea.
Let me see if I'm understanding you correctly. IF people who use the word "philosophy" will simply substitute the word "ideas", THEN no one would ever get stuck clinging to dogmatic shitty ideas. What you call a thing is apparently more powerful than I thought. Huh.
The way you are using the word "philosophy" seems closer to "creed". Do people "get stuck" on the latest scientific theories? Or do they just defend them so long as they seem the most elegant explanation of the data available? I would say the latter. The same is true in philosophy. The more elegant explanation wins. The chief difference is that the issues are more subtle and not generally decidable with an experiment.
You really should look into philosophy more if you want to slam it. There is plenty to criticize but you'll never know if you don't look into what it actually is. Don't think science doesn't come in for criticism too. There is an entire branch of philosophy dedicated to just that.
