On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm... They are not aware of the mind body problem > Nor am I aware of any such problem. The hardest part of the mind body "problem" is figuring out what the hell the problem is. The religious demand a explanation of mind, by which they mean give a description of mind in terms of something other than mind, as using a thing to define itself is rather pointless; so scientists do so and explain mind in terms of X (biological brains, electronic computers, abstract Turing Machines, and other things that are not mind ), but when they do so the religious complain "but X is not mind!". Well of course X is not mind, if they explained mind in terms of mind then it would be a pretty silly explanation, but fortunately they use things other than mind to explain how mind works. By the way I read Krauss's "A Universe from Nothing" a few weeks ago and thought it was excelent. John K Clark -- 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.
