On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 12:25:38 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 10 May 2019, at 09:12, Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > When someone says "consciousness is not a material thing" I think of Wile > E. Coyote. > > Consciousnesses need something (matter) to hang on to. Consciousnesses > just don't go floating around willy-nilly. The Coyote finds that out when > he finds out he is hanging on to nothing, and looks down. > > > > That is nice Aristotelian poetry. But you just repeat you ontological > commitment in a material world, where no physicist has a consistent theory > of it, nor even have tried to test its existence. What the Aspect > experience has only shown, is that IF there is a physicaly reality then it > can’t be a boolean reality (which would have already annoyed Aristotle). > > Then with Mechanism, “Matter” invocation needs to add some magic > incompatible with YD+CT. > It is like invoking a God to impeach testing simpler theories which do not > commit a so strong ontological commitment. > > Bruno >
I was shooting for Epicurean poetry (or Lucretian; Lucretius's *De rerum natur*a [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura ] was a poem about the philosophy of Epicurus). Aristotle's philosophy is *confused nonsense*, especially when compared to Epicurus's. @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b0f3ab8f-d71f-4beb-bdad-a4fdb2dd2e13%40googlegroups.com.
