(March 29, 2014 at 9:30 pm)rasetsu Wrote: I think Chalmers is definitely on the woo woo train, but his term "the hard problem" is a centerpoint of many philosophy of mind discussions.The woo woo train? Is that similar to having joined the hula-hula club?
To be honest, the quote reminds me a little of that practical joke when they made a program that created scientific articles from random words and snippets of text. It was of course mostly very obscure terms that very few know of, and even fewer understand. They got some of the articles published in scientific journals. Some got positive feedback from scientists linked to the publication. 'That is a very interesting theory' and so on. The articles were of course utterly meaningless nonsense.
Sometimes when I read this kind of material I get the feeling they have been generated by a similar program.
