RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 27, 2022 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2022 at 11:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No, it's not at all clear that all potential mental substances (or mental properties) belong in the same set. In my experience, people tend to have ideological preferences for asserting a world of many substances. A valued x is (or seems to some person to be) excluded by a monist theory and is the reason that a person takes such a stance.
The same can be said for people who insist that only a monist theory, and only their monist theory, could explain something like mind. I prefer multiple realizability. There is more than one mind, and more than one way to make a mind, and that's even if we limit ourselves to things within materialism, for example. It's not difficult to conceive of a different world where there are no material properties or substance but..instead, immaterial properties or substance. That these other properties or substances can also achieve the effects we note when we speak about consciousness. If we lived in a world of both (and hell, why not both and then some) we might notice alot of different consciousnesses - all very different from each other, and even different from others in the same set - the things that explain one set offering no explanation of the others. Trouble is, we don't seem to be living in that world ourselves.
The same can be said for people who insist that only a monist theory, and only their monist theory, could explain something like mind. I prefer multiple realizability. There is more than one mind, and more than one way to make a mind, and that's even if we limit ourselves to things within materialism, for example. It's not difficult to conceive of a different world where there are no material properties or substance but..instead, immaterial properties or substance. That these other properties or substances can also achieve the effects we note when we speak about consciousness. If we lived in a world of both (and hell, why not both and then some) we might notice alot of different consciousnesses - all very different from each other, and even different from others in the same set - the things that explain one set offering no explanation of the others. Trouble is, we don't seem to be living in that world ourselves.
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