RE: Monist vs. Dualist Experiment?
November 5, 2013 at 10:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2013 at 10:19 am by Angrboda.)
(November 5, 2013 at 9:29 am)bennyboy Wrote:(November 5, 2013 at 4:52 am)genkaus Wrote: The only reason you are not sure is because you start with the assumption that there is something else involved in determining qualia, i.e. you start by assuming dualism.The reason I'm not sure is that there are multiple possibilities , and I do not know which one represents truth. I'm agnostic.
Now, clearly brain function and brain structure are related to the existence and nature of qualia. However, whether it is a property of an organic brain, or of a certain kind of data processing, or something else entirely, is not known to me, and I suspect may not be knowable.
I can appreciate your position of agnosticism, given current development in the cognitive sciences, but on what basis do you "suspect" that it may not be knowable at all? That seems a somewhat intellectually dishonest agnosticism if you're willing to kibitz on the matter that you say you intend to keep at arm's length.
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