On 6/19/2021 8:35 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
You appear to operate according to a "mysterian" view of
consciousness, which is that we cannot ever know. Several philosophers
of mind have expressed this, such as Thomas Nagel I believe.
I have some sympathy with this view, but I ask "cannot know what?". What
is you think there is to know? If you could look at a brain and from
that predict how the person with that brain would behave...isn't that
the same as what we know about gravity and elementary particles. We
don't know the ding und sich, but so what?
What I think is missing in the JKC's idea that intelligence is
interesting and understandable but consciousness isn't, is that he
leaves out values. Intelligence is define in terms of achieving goals.
It's instrumental. But there's another dimension to thought and
behavior (not necessarily conscious) which provides the
motivation/goals/values for intelligence and part of intelligence (the
part we commonly call 'wisdom' when it works out) is how conflicting
values are resolved.
Brent
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never
pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
--- David Hume
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