(December 13, 2013 at 2:16 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I admire the quality of content and presentation of qualiasoup’s videos. He did a very good job summarizing the basic arguments supporting physicalist theories. But, he did not fairly represent the counter-arguments. Fortunately, some response videos give at least a basic overview of the counter-arguments.
Genkaus, we have both already accepted the close relationship and correlation between brain states/processes and mental properties. You take that correlation as evidence for a causal link between low-level physical processes and qualia, apparently defined as a high-level emergent property. None of your replies justify this assumption. You either dismiss counter-arguments with hand-waving or restate your assumption by wrapping it in behaviorism. My objections (emergence as a linguistic convention, the implicit over-determination or epiphenomenalism of causal closure, evolution’s blindness to qualitative states, and the sign/significance relationship) stand unanswered.
(emphasis mine)
When you decide to stop equivocating just to make room for your god, you let us know, Chad, okay?
It is evidence. Not 100% conclusive evidence, but nothing ever is. Shall we apply the same standard for your theories for which there is no evidence? You'd love us to do that. It just grates on your nerves that we're not that stupid.
![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)