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Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs
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RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs
April 21, 2013 at 2:04 pm
(April 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm)whateverist Wrote: Whereas pieces of papers are not the sort of thing we think of as assigning or conveying meaning, brains are precisely the kind of thing we think does so.
To me that is part of what makes the problem so interesting. Why do you (and I) make an exception for one particular physical system? What makes the brain different from the paper is the presence of operations you associate with mind. We do not suppose that ink and paper, thermostats, and computers have minds?
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Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Neo-Scholastic - April 20, 2013 at 3:34 pm
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Joel - April 20, 2013 at 3:56 pm
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Whateverist - April 21, 2013 at 10:34 am
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Cato - April 21, 2013 at 11:07 am
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Whateverist - April 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Neo-Scholastic - April 21, 2013 at 2:04 pm
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Whateverist - April 22, 2013 at 12:07 am
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Whateverist - April 22, 2013 at 10:21 am
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Whateverist - April 22, 2013 at 2:38 pm
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by A_Nony_Mouse - April 23, 2013 at 10:23 am
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Angrboda - April 22, 2013 at 2:28 pm
RE: Rosenberg's Argument Against Beliefs - by Angrboda - April 23, 2013 at 2:15 pm

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