On 17 February 2014 01:39, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: I and I would agree with Stathis - except for the "merely". I think Bruno > was right when he observed that "epi" doesn't mean anything in this > context. Stathis doesn't think that consciousness is separable from the > physics; it's just talking about the same thing at a different level. We > don't call life an epiphenomena of biochemistry. And I regard "meaning" in > the same way, or as Dennett calls it "the intentional stance".
Well I guess that's all fine and dandy as long as we're not too particular about analysing out some precise ontological or epistemological status for each level of description. Maybe you feel that any such attempt is premature, or not even possible. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
