--- In [email protected], "PaliGap" <compost1uk@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> > wrote: > > > John Searle at CERN (TEDxTalks) > > http://youtu.be/j_OPQgPIdKg > > [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j_OPQgPIdKg ] > > Searle, Dennet & Zombies:
Oh, very nice indeed! I liked his response to the newbie's comment: "You are getting at a tension between philosophy as metaphysics, as the attempt to penetrate appearances to arrive at ultimate reality as it is in itself, and philosophy as phenomenology, as the attempt to describe and understand the world, not as it is in itself, but as it is i[n] its human involvement. Scientism could be understood as an extreme form of the metaphysical tendency. It suffers shipwreck on the reef of certain appearances that are simply undeniable." > http://goo.gl/K6NsO > http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2009/04/searle-dennett-and-zombies.html >
