Hi Stathis Papaioannou IMHO Chalmer's biggest error has been not to recognize
that the self does not appear in all of neurophilosophy. This IMHO is the glaring shortcoming of materialism. The lights are on, but nobody's home. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/3/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-02, 07:17:41 Subject: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > That implies that T-cells need a feeling to guide them not to kill friendly > cells. That H2O needs a feeling to guide it not to dissolve non-polar > molecules. If you believe in functionalism, then all feeling is a > metaphysical epiphenomenon. I think the opposite makes more sense - > everything is feeling, function is the result of sense, not the other way > around. T-cells do feel. Molecules do feel. How could it be any other way? Panpsychism is not inconsistent with functionalism. David Chalmers is a functionalist and panpsychist. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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. -- 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.
