(April 30, 2015 at 11:54 am)wallym Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 11:31 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: This may be true, but like consciousness, until we have a model of how the brain creates meaning, it's pointless to say you're sure that it's in there. Maybe once we map out all the functional parts of the brain and we find it's not in there. What is your response then? You have faith that the physicalist model of mind explains it, but without an actual model of how it explains it, your assurances aren't worth much.
Why would you believe it's not there? What possible rationale could you have to expect that this time, believing the laws of the universe, is an issue of 'faith.'
That's like saying "We can't be sure gravity is still going to be a thing tomorrow until tomorrow gets here and we test it out."
But the problem of induction isn't trivial. It is true that we don't have a proof that the sun will rise tomorrow or gravity will still exert its power.
