On 30 Nov 2008, at 16:31, Günther Greindl wrote:
> > > > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> I realise this coming close to regarding consciousness as akin to the >> religious notion of a disembodied soul. But what are the >> alternatives? >> As I see it, if we don't discard computationalism the only >> alternative >> is to deny that consciousness exists at all, which seems to me >> incoherent. > > ACK > > But the differences are so enormous that one is again very far from > religion. In religion, the soul is an "essence" of a person > interfacing > with a material body and usually exposed to some kind of judgement > in an > afterlife. I guess you mean "our occidental religion" ( which are about 40% Plato, 60% Aristotle, say). > > > With COMP the "soul" - better: mind - is all there is - no material > world, no essence, no judgements, Well, to be frank, we don't know that. Open problem :) > just COMP. Well, mainly its consequences, IF true. Thanks for your encouraging kind remarks in your posts, Günther. Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
