On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 February 2015 at 12:59, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As I understand it, being an epiphenomenon means one can give a causal > > account of the phenomenon without mentioning it. But the epiphenomenon > > necessarily accompanies the phenomenon. In the case of consciousness > it's > > essentially denying the possibility of a philosophical zombie. > > Yes, that's how I would put it. > > > What Brent describes sounds more like emergence to me than epiphenominalism. See how epiphenominalism is decribed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/ Perhaps all of our disagreement comes down to operating under different definitions? Jason -- 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.
