> On 30 May 2019, at 14:32, Philip Thrift <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 5:18:13 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > You told me that consciousness is material. Please extract it from the bug, > and send me 5g of pure consciousness extract. > > I have few doubt that insect and arthropodes have some first person > (conscious) experience, so if consciousness is material, you should succeed > in extracting it from the bug. > > Bruno > > > I'm not a dualist, so there is no X is material and Y is immaterial (like > ghosts) that make up nature.
But a game of bridge is something immaterial, not be confused with its implementation. I don’t believe in ghost, but I believe in a tun or immaterial things. Using fictionalism to dismiss the existence of immaterial thing, like numbers, will make eventually the whole physical reality, and mathematical reality into fiction, making the term devoid of meaning. Bruno > > > @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 > <mailto:everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ce7cf64a-9ccf-43b7-89ea-8c310500cbbb%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ce7cf64a-9ccf-43b7-89ea-8c310500cbbb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/A7C9DC0F-0748-4834-A188-3341327D1AD8%40ulb.ac.be.
