On 17 October 2014 09:38, David Nyman <da...@davidnyman.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2014 19:54, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think it's a matter of semantics. I'm sure Graziano experiences what I >> experience, given my use of the word "experience", but due to his >> understanding of what underpins this experience he chooses to say it doesn't >> really exist. It's as if someone chose to say life does not really exist on >> the grounds that it's all just chemistry. > > > That doesn't strike me as a good example. I presume both you and he would > agree that there's simply no need to posit "something" (elan vital?) over > and above its physical basis in order to have a satisfactory intuition about > what is meant by life. There's nothing obviously counter-intuitive about the > idea that life demands no explanation beyond the particular physical > processes that constitute living systems. On the other hand I presume you > don't find the parallel intuition - that consciousness demands no > explanation beyond its correlation with specific physical processes - > similarly satisfactory. Am I wrong?
Whether I find it satisfactory or not is a different question. The point I was making is that people who find it satisfactory express this belief idea by claiming that consciousness does not exist. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
