On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:14 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 August 2014 11:59, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:40 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 8/4/2014 4:23 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> Not is a David Lynch movie useful to reduce obesity. What's your point >>> exactly? >>> >> That a good theory of consciousness should be useful for treating people >>> with mental problems. >>> >> Only if you already assume emergentism. Otherwise a good theory of brain >> could be enough. >> >> This looks like a good example of Kuhnian paradigms. Obviously a good > theory of consciousness is only good for treating mental problems if > consciousness is something that is (in some sense) secreted or created by > the brain. >
That was precisely my point. > Otherwise you aren't addressing consciousness itself, only the contents of > consciousness, which I imagine we all agree are brain-dependant. > > So until you know what consciousness actually is, you are like the bad > neighbours arguing from different premises. > I have been arguing against not being aware of the premises, not for one of the premises. Telmo. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
