RE: Supervenience, Transcendence, and Mind
September 14, 2014 at 8:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2014 at 9:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
My position is not "brains -with- minds"...but that "brains -are- minds". As such, "any other data processing structure" doesn't fit the bill, as a brain is not just "any" data processing structure.
The objects -themselves- are also expressions of the underlying principles. Reductionism. That said, the principle may -allow- for mind, but it (mind) certainly doesn't seem to express itself in a vacuum on principle alone. The principle gives potential, the object actualizes the potential. Aluminum, for example, has the potential to fly, but we don't see flying chunks of aluminum until they get hammered into aircraft (or thrown across my lawn).
The objects -themselves- are also expressions of the underlying principles. Reductionism. That said, the principle may -allow- for mind, but it (mind) certainly doesn't seem to express itself in a vacuum on principle alone. The principle gives potential, the object actualizes the potential. Aluminum, for example, has the potential to fly, but we don't see flying chunks of aluminum until they get hammered into aircraft (or thrown across my lawn).
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