Hi Jason Resch
No, the issue of consciousness is not a condition caused by pragmatics,
the use of language.
Consciousness/life/intelligence (subjectivity, or knowledge by acquaintance or
1p)
is fundamentally different from anyhing objective (physical or
(knowledge by description or 3p). Materialism cannot properly
deal with knowledge by acquaintance (1p), can only deal with 3p.
The brief version of this is that Cs is personal, not impersonal.
1p is slo the mysterious world of solipsism, which does not exist
in the physical world. It is the world of the Tao Te Ching
("What is spoken of as the Tao is not the tao").
[Roger Clough], [[email protected]]
12/25/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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Subject: Re: Re: How visual images are produced in the brain. Was
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Jason Resch
I would define consciousness as perception,
?ither internal or external, by any of the senses.
So it is an activity, a verb, not a thing or noun.
Language is very flexible. ?ften nouns are formed to describe what are
fundamentally activities (e.g., a party, a dance, Brownian motion,
(radioactive) decay, a race, etc.). ? agree with you that consciousness is
fundamentally an activity.
Jason
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