On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:33 PM Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>> I could understand what you mean by "physical reality" if you could just >> answer the following question. If there was a physical reality how would >> things be different from if there was not a physical reality? > > > *>You would need to explain what that physical reality is* > Me? I'm the one that needs to explains what "physical reality" means??!! I don't know what it means Bruno, it's your term not mine, that's why I wanted you to answer the above question so I could get some idea what you mean by it. > > if we assume Mechanism, then such a physical reality has no sense. >> >> > Perhaps so I don't know because I don't know what “Mechanism" > > > *So let us stop here.* Not a bad idea. > Tell me what you don’t understand in the Mechanist hypothesis. > > You've said *"Mechanism is the assumption that we can survive a digital brain transplant operation*" and that at least is clear and by that definition I certainly believe in mechanism , although for reasons explained in my previous post no assumptions were involved. But I still don't know if I believe in something you call "physicalism" because you can't explain how it would make any difference if it were true of not. *> It isa bit frightening given that you are the only Mechanist practionners (alive) on this list.* I am? I didn't know that. But why is that frightening? John K Clark > > -- 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/CAJPayv3Wpc1p4KFxZ5MwosKNK0g4mgEAm_reox7kfY84j8ZTNw%40mail.gmail.com.
