Le lun. 4 mai 2020 à 14:15, Lawrence Crowell <
[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 10:14:10 PM UTC-5, smitra wrote:
>>
>> On 03-05-2020 23:09, Philip Thrift wrote:
>> > The SSH
>> >
>> >       https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/2/247
>> >
>> > still lies in the "information turn" that plays in physics today.(IT
>> > FROM QUBIT, etc.) - a rejection pf materialism in favor of idealism.
>> >
>> > It is more interesting to me to stick to the vocabulary of
>> > materialist* physics - particles, fields, interactions, forces - but
>> > to approach CONSCIOUSNESS AS PURELY MATERIAL - adding a new
>> > force/interaction/particle/field as needed (like a sixth force/field).
>> >
>> > http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Field_theories_of_consciousness
>> >
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_theories_of_consciousness
>> >
>> > etc.
>> >
>> > * or physicalist
>> >
>> > @philipthrift
>>
>> Physicalism is a dead end. The hard problem of consciousness and other
>> philosophical problems can be considered to be no-go theorems against
>> physicalism. Abandoning physicalism solves all these problems in one
>> fell swoop. But that also opens the door to wrong theories as people
>> engaging with non-physicalist theories can too easily advertise their
>> pet theories because they don't suffer from all the diseases physicalist
>> theories suffer from. The bar has to be set higher, I would like to see
>> a derivation of the laws of physics, not some vague argument that it is
>> consistent with QM and unitary evolution but a lot more detail than just
>> that.
>>
>> Saibal
>
>
> I think more likely this mean the hard problem or qualia are illusions. I
> have far more confidence in physics than I do in hopeful ideas about
> qualia, which are psychological form of elan vital thought in previous
> centuries to underlie biology.
>

Either you have no quale, and then as a zombie... it could mean something
(but not to you), or you have, and if a theory cannot account for that, it
miss the things it purpose to explain.

When you say "psychological form" you're talking about a quale... I don't
see how that could be explained away...

Quentin


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