RE: The Category Error of Scientism
January 24, 2014 at 9:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2014 at 9:40 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 22, 2014 at 9:50 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: So let me get this straight... our linguistic limitations and current lack of a robust theory of consciousness...means God dune it?Neither of which reflects anything I said.
(January 23, 2014 at 8:23 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Most of what you said is somewhat confused from not reading the entirety of my post in context.My apologies. I will try to read more thoroughly.
(January 23, 2014 at 8:23 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: ... there are in fact non-reductionist physicalist theories of mind in philosophy of mind.I think computationalists fall into that category. So I guess you are right, and I am wrong, on this point. My position is a bit like that of the atheist trying to refute the specific claims of every different Protestant denomination.
(January 23, 2014 at 8:23 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Thermodynamics is an emergent system that cannot, for example, be reduced to quantum mechanics.Could be. I haven't given much thought to that specific example. Let me stew on that on a bit.
