Consciousness Trilemma

[bennyboy]

Eliminative materialim isn't going to tell you how you should feel about anything, or why some x should matter.  Honestly, you're going to feel the way you do regardless, right?  

Void?  This is like claiming that the person who establishes that dragons don't exist has to fill the void they leave behind.  There were never dragons to begin with.  There is no void, all is exactly as it was before.  

Eliminative materialism is a position on how the brain might achieve these things.  A position on what is or is not true with regards to that operation.  That's it, that's all.

I don't think eliminative materialism IS a position on how the brain might achieve these things. I think it's mainly the philosophical position that certain views best be avoided on grounds they aren't represented in any observable material reality. In other words, it tells us what NOT to think, not what to think, amirite?