On 13 May 2015 at 15:03, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Bruno does make a prediction that can be empirically tested. He predicts > that consciousness does not supervene on physical brains but on > computations. The MGA purports to show that the assumption of physical > supervenience leads to a contradiction. But supervenience of consciousness > on brains is an indisputable empirical result, so the MGA works against > comp. > > I'm not sure that's what Bruno is trying to show, because he knows any TOE must explain all observations to date, at least in principle, so he would hardly be making a claim that is obviously refutable (or not for longer than it took him to notice that it was refutable, I hope). I think Bruno's argument isn't attempting to refute supervention of the mind on the brain, but "primary materialism" - but I'm sure he will correct me if I'm wrong. -- 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.
