--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sjn99YTh4U Oh, yes - one of the classics. This zombie issue is an interesting one, eh? Xeno posted an objection from Dennett, but I couldn't really follow his thinking. It felt a bit like bluster. I subscribe to Maverick Philosopher's RSS feed. I think he's very good - although I think you would not care for his politics! Here's another post of his in response to a recent UK Guardian article. I thought this may be appropriate given our resident 20th century positivist's recent claim that "Metaphysics explains nothing, it is tripe." Philosophy Always Buries Its Undertakers ---------------------------------------- http://goo.gl/xQ29E http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2013/05/philosophy-always-buries-its-undertakers.html On neo-atheist Lawrence Krauss, this seemed spot on I thought: "The author is right, however, to smell 'conceptual confusion beneath mathematical sophistication' when it comes to attempts by Lawrence Krauss and others to explain how the universe arose ex nihilo from spontaneous fluctuations in a quantum vacuum, as if those fluctuations and that vacuum were not precisely something." > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > --- 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 > > > > > >
