On Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:51:40 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: > > On 11 April 2014 02:17, Craig Weinberg <[email protected] > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:55:08 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: >> >>> On 10 April 2014 04:09, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Dreams need not have any possible evolutionary justification, since >>>> their presence or absence is irrelevant to behavior. >>>> >>> >>> My dream caused this thread to come into existence, and you to make the >>> statement quoted above. Hence you have "refuted yourself thus!" :-) >>> >>> >> No, we can't smuggle in our real world experience of dreams affecting our >> behavior into the theoretical world that functionalism would allow. If we >> do, it's begging the question; we are saying in effect 'Music must have an >> effect on cars, since cars come with radios'. Music might make you drive >> your car faster or miss your exit, but that doesn't mean that music itself >> should be explained as arising from the manufacture of automobiles. If you >> look only at what a car requires, and are careful not to smuggle in what >> *your use* of a car includes, then we can see that evolution can only >> really account for physiological behaviors, not subjectivity. All >> subjective experiences could and would be replaced by unconscious >> automation in a purely biological view of life. >> > > Fine, so a counter example is dismissed as "smuggling in" because you > don't like it. When I use a word it means what I want it to mean... ffs. If > that's your idea of a reasonable response, excuse me while I put you on my > ignore list. >
You're projecting your refusal to be wrong on to me. My example stands. It has nothing to do with what I like, it just makes more sense. -- 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/d/optout.
