Bruno I admire you for responding to everything, no matter how irrelevant. Have a pleasant summer John
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2013, at 03:26, Roger Clough wrote: > > > Materialists believe apparently strange things, such as that mind is > matter. > > What if mind is matter ? > > > Then mind would be quantized, and there would be particles of mind > (psychon, as someone named it). > > Comp would be false, but some other mechanist assumption would remain > correct. Just be sure your doctor put the right psychon in the artificial > brain. > > I find comp more plausible, and as having a bigger explanatory power. Even > for matter, I am not convinced by the "particle" idea. > > Bruno > > > > > If mind is matter, if thought is particular, can you explain then how such > particles think ? > Do they mull around until they vote one to be the leader, who organzies > the rest of the unruly mob ? And what orders does he give them ? Etc. > > Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
