RE: Is There a Point To Living a Moral Life?
October 22, 2013 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2013 at 9:43 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
Assuming naturalism is true and that the mind is ultimately reducible to the brain does not necessitate that one abandon the concept of meaning. In other words, even those naturalists who might argue for a position akin to this (no naturalist I can recall argues for this exactly) like the philosopher Alex Rosenberg make it clear that such is merely their belief regarding naturalism. Other naturalists have their own account of meaning, though I'm not overly knowledgeable on this aspect of naturalist literature on this topic.
However, it's not even clear if other views regarding consciousness solve this problem. How can a secondary, ephemeral substance be 'about' anything?
However, it's not even clear if other views regarding consciousness solve this problem. How can a secondary, ephemeral substance be 'about' anything?