On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:29:51PM +0330, Mohsen Ravanbakhsh wrote: > > and I have another question: > Throughout discussions, what is the assumption regarding the mind-body > problem? (Emergentism, reductionism, eliminativism, dualism, ...) > > -- > > Mohsen Ravanbakhsh, > >
None of the above, basically. I have a section on 'isms in my book, and conclude that my own position on consciousness can be described by all the classic 'isms apart from eliminative materialism. Since my position is consistent AFAIK, I can only conclude that the 'isms are a somewhat artificial classification - useful for discussing past ideas on consciousness perhaps, but not useful for going forward. I was reminded of the old parable of the "six men of Indostan and the elephant". The 'isms of cognitive science are like saying elephant science consists of wallism, spearism, snakeism, treeism, fanism and ropeism. Anyway, cognitive science is not discussed much on this list, but it is on topic IMHO. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---