Hi Roger So long as Im not a hapless monad subjected to an influx of incomplete and distorted 'percepts' via a supreme monad, I'm more than happy to be a Zombie. I might be dead but at least I'm not deluded and neither one of us has much of a claim on having free will. Moreover, being a zombie is just an extrapolation of what a materialist is bound to according to his critics, something he can argue against, being a monad on the other hand is a positive theory offered up by idealists as the actual truth. I mean they really believe that stuff!
I doubt you will reply but it seems to me that by the id of inds and his conviction that what is real must be simple and indivisible that monads can not be minds. Afterall, the mind is clearly divisible. Ask any blind person whether they can see, or any deaf person whether they can hear. Far from being unified the mind is a divisible conglomerate of interacting parts and thats apparent when you just consider qualia. When you consider thinking itself, and the manner we employ fast and loose heuristics to make judgements rather than logically think issues through, again it is abundantly clear that the mind is a pandemonium of competing routines rather than a unified 'one'. This is all clearly and distinctly apparent subjectively to anyone who cares to look. Identifying minds with monads then contravenes the identity of indiscernibles because whilst we can say the mind is divisible a monad by definition is not. all the best From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: How to tell whether you are a zombie or have a materialist mind Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:26:44 -0400 How to tell whether you are a zombie or have a materialist mind If you can have subjective experiences, then you can neither be a zombie nor have a materialist mind. Most of us should be relieved to know that. 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. -- 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.
