Krim:> I am not saying that we can avoid making assumptions. I'm saying we should > avoid making stupid assumptions.
DM: Great, except how do we really spot these? When we ask others to make assumptions with > us we should be prepared to explain why. DM: Exactly what I am asking you to do. The conscious germ and electron > assumptions offer nothing in the way of explanatory power. All I can see > that they do is offer a bogus sense of identity. Rather like, "If I were > an > electron I know that I would prefer this state to that state and I would > want to do thus and so." Now if there is some serious advantage to this > line > of thinking, great. But Platt has certainly not been forthcoming with it. > I > can tell you are sympathetic but really have not shown me much either. > The question is not whether we make assumptions, it is about what kind of > assumption we make and why. DM: Sure, I agree. I really get this from Whitehead where he suggest that dropping the assumptions of an inanimate realm helps us to see the non-dualistic nature of life and its development of inorganic capacities that eventually gives us consciousness as incremental and as likely to have some lower level aspect in inorganic processes. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
