On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 3:52 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Brain" is a noun, "consciousness" is not > > *> I disagree with this * An embalmed brain rotting in a grave is a noun. Do you therefore think it's conscious? I don't because it's not doing anything that 3 pounds of rotting hamburger isn't doing, and neither of the two are behaving intelligently. >> therefore "consciousness" is not a noun, it's a word that describes what >> a noun (in this case the brain) does, in other words consciousness is an >> adject > > > *> This is logically inconsistent with Descartes Mechanism. * I have no idea what "*Descartes Mechanism*" is, and after listening to you all these years I am quite certain you can't give a coherent explanation for it either, but whatever it means if it is logically inconsistent with what I said then "*Descartes Mechanism*" is wrong. *> Without mechanism, it is consistent, but still problematic with Occam razor * As I said before, Occam razor is about economy of assumptions not economy of results. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 0o6 -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv18k88O-_k7%3D8EwyzvKm1uTn84_ZaLxycbrpb0O6D9oRA%40mail.gmail.com.
