RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind
September 14, 2014 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2014 at 11:18 am by Mudhammam.)
(September 14, 2014 at 2:06 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 14, 2014 at 12:13 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Perhaps it's somewhat off the main point of a supervenient or trascendent property but what I meant was, wouldn't it be fair to say that the shape and size of any given objects, or secondary properties, such as the wetness of water, are effects of supervenience interacting with the--assuming you're somewhere in Kant's ball park--noumenal reality?Please elaborate if you could. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Well, if mind is a superveniening property of brain--I take that to be your suggestion--and mind is responsible for all of our phenomenal experiences (objects and their primary properties such as size, shape, etc. and secondary properties such as liquidity, solidity, etc.), then aren't we really saying something to the effect that colored, Euclidean-geometrical reality and all its apparently given sensations are actually an effect of a supervenient property rather than a cause (the cause being whatever physicists mean by "cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace")?
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