Hi David. Pleased to meet you (or have you been here before?).
12 Jan. you wrote: > Dear Chris > I have reasons for believing that a strictly physical explanation of a > performed action by an individual is possible. They start with Kant's > assertion that Quality is an a priori synthetic judgment and a > characteristic of mind just like time and space. They continue with > the realization that mind is not mental but rather physical, > biological, entity and therefore, intentionality can be explained by > the laws of physics. But the whole explanation cannot be done quickly > so I'll leave it here and get back to it as its own topic in future. Kant did not exactly speak about Quality in the MOQ sense, but to begin with a kind of the beginning. Western philosophy has always had SOM as its premises, but then came the discovery of the empiricists that all qualities, color, sound, taste,smell, touch were produced by the senses - were subjective - Berkeley went as far as to claim that there was nothing "out there". everything was subjective. Then Kant who set out to save reason from this mad "pure reason" and claimed there were something he called "forms of perception" built into existence itself, not learned FROM experience rather what experience was filtered through These were TIME, SPACE and CAUSATION that made up OUR experience "das Ding für Uns" (the world for us) But note that Kant did not shake the foundations of SOM, the was still a world out there "das Ding an Sich" (the world in itself). But the MOQ has taken leave of SOM , so I'm a bit surprised that some of us keep speaking as if SOM's artificial problems has any bearing inside the MOQ with statements like yours > ... "They continue with the realization that mind is not mental but > rather physical, biological, entity and therefore, intentionality can > be explained by the laws of physics". Yes, we know that the SOM struggles with such self-inflicted problems stemming from its faulty premises that the S/O split being existence's ground. The MOQ's premises however is the DQ/SQ split and then the static levels, the said S/O split is intellect's STATIC value. Kant's just cemented SOM, but has no bearing on the MOQ. Bo 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/
