Hi Chris,
On Monday, June 24, 2013 9:03:26 PM UTC-4, chris peck wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > 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.
