On Aug 3, 2:13 pm, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> You are the one imagining that a very special form (a biological
> neuron) must equate with private content.
Not true. All physical phenomena has a private correlate. Biology just
expands the richness of it, commensurate with it's added layer of
physical meta-organization.
> > particularly given the success of miniaturization in
> > processing enormously complex signals. I think this goes along with
> > the conception of electromagnetism as disembodied forces and fields,
> > quantum mechanical probability waves, etc as the overreaching of
> > abstraction to compensate for the disqualification of sensorimotive
> > phenomena because it doesn't mix well with existing theoretical
> > approaches and Enlightenment era traditions.
>
> On the contrary. The Indians and the greeks have intuit Mechanism, and
> greeks have "invented" occidental science by marrying mysticism and
> rationalism. It is the naturalist/materialist tradition
> ("Arsitotelian") which has separated Theology from Science, not
> mechanism, unless you confuse it with materialism (but with the usual
> weak Occam razor they are logically incompatible).
That's true. Enlightenment era traditions should read 'philosophical
traditions developed in the Enlightenment era and before'.
> There is nothing wrong with *searching* this understanding.
> The problem is that you want to reintroduce the 1p in science, and
> this does not help for reintroducing the 3-p theories on the 1p in
> science, because many scientists confuse them, and you give them fuel.
If many scientists confuse them, then maybe there is a reason for that
that needs to be understood completely, and not just avoided?
> It is already, if you can listen to the others.
When I find someone who can listen to me, then I will be able to learn
how to do it.
Craig
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