On Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 2:56:45 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/2/2019 11:04 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > "Experiential atoms" are sort of " just words" - like "atoms" was just > > a word to the Atomists of ancient Greece. And then a lot of people > > ignored them. Hopefully things will go better in this round of history. > > > > - pt > > Democritus didn't just define atoms as "the uncuttable". He built a > theory on it. Atoms had hook-and-loop interactions that explained the > coherence and interaction of bodies. They flowed downward explaining > gravity. They swerved explaining interactions. I don't see any > explantory or predictive power in experiential atoms. It's easy to see > how anesthetics may work by blocking ion channels in neurons. No > experiential atoms need be considered. > > Brent >
It is Epicurus that wrote of psychical (in addition to physical) atoms: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/#PsycEthi - pt -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
