Hi Stephen P. King As with Berkeleyism, Immaterialism denies the existence of matter.
Leibniz doesn't, so I'll stick with Leibniz, whose metaphysics is a double aspect type or close to that and was taken up by Kant, also a double-sperspective type. Modern neurophilosophy is said to be essentially Kantian. Leibniz is close to Kant in double aspect about a thing: 1) thing "in itself " as perceived mentally (as a monad) from your perspective as a phenomenon. 2) thing "for itself," as it actually is physically without a perspective (as a scientist would treat it) For Kant, perception occurs through the joining of these two aspects. So the thing isn't an illusion, or hallucination. Any object as seen by you is only seen phenomenologically, that is, "in itself", as it appears in your mind, from your perspective. But as with Kant, matter it is not an illusion, it is a "for itself". You can still perform precise experiments on the object. So I can still stub my toe. I don't know about Bruno. im穖a穞e穜i穉l穒sm (m-t顁--lzm) n. A metaphysical doctrine denying the existence of matter. imma穞eri穉l穒st adj. & n. immaterialism [??m?'t??r???l?z?m] n Philosophy 1. (Philosophy) the doctrine that the material world exists only in the mind 2. (Philosophy) the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist See also idealism [3] immaterialist n [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] 12/15/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-12-15, 11:28:27 Subject: Re: Could Double Aspect theory apply to a computer ? On 12/15/2012 10:34 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Bruno Marchal > Could Double Aspect theory apply to a computer ? > I don't think so, because in that theory mind and > brain are just different forms or aspects of some > hard-to-define "stuff". I just can't see computer > hardware being another aspect of its code. Hi Roger, Bruno advocates for Immaterialism, not Dual Aspect theory. DA theory would apply to a computer if it can satisfy the requirements of organizational and logical closure. Additionally, there is no such thing as "stuff" or 'substance' in any non-relative sense in DA theory. -- Onward! Stephen -- 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.
