As I understand it the Humpty Dumpty position is that we may as well talk about mental causation in the traditional ways until science advances on the topic. And maybe even then?
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 12:32 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > He states his Humpty Dumpty preference, and then says wait for the science > to, in effect, falsify it. (Noting how it is well on the way to doing just > that.) Then there's a lot of in between where he talks in circles. Don't > really see the point. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ??? > Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 10:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shorthands for Brain-stuff > > Yep. But to be fair, that's part of their job, as long as their belief is > temporary ... for the purposes of playing an idea out to its reasonable > conclusions. What's inevitable is that any philosopher machine, like any > machine, will tend to get stuck in some rut as it ages and degrades ... > until it stops ticking entirely. It's tragic, really. We non-philosophers > are quite lucky in that, as we degrade, the machine we've built over > decades wiggles only a little bit around the ephemeris. Barring a > domain-shattering discovery (or a gaslighting nightmare like Fox News), > non-philosophers will die believing roughly what they came to believe over > their lifetime. But for a machine whose purpose it is to swap beliefs like > hats and scarves, they could land anywhere. > > On 10/5/20 10:37 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I forget there are philosophers who are prepared to believe, well, > anything. > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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