On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:19 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/9/2015 1:00 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > The fact that non-materialistic theories of mind are not falsifiable does > not imply that materialistic theories of mind are. > > > Materialistic theories are generally falsifiable (at least in principle) > As I argued with John, I don't accept that most scientific theories are materialistic at all, I think they are agnostic on that issue. The only materialistic theories I know are all non-falsifiable from the 3p, and most also not from the 1p. > because "matter" is defined to be something we have shared experience of. > So it provides a shared basis for experiment. The difficulty with testing > theories of consciousness is that we can only agree on perceived behavior, > e.g. Turing tests. > I think we disagree on what materialism means. I agree with the definition on Wikipedia: "Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are the result of material interactions." Non-materialism does not deny shared experience, nor does it deny that I am feeling keys click under my fingers. Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > 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.
