List, Charles: A brief comment on: On May 27, 2014, at 3:08 PM, charles murray wrote:
> Clarity about Peirce's view of this matter is especially important to me > because I take seriously Smyth's insistence that minds are introduced as > theoretical entities which have no power of efficient causation. Physical > efficacy is another matter, and Kees may feel his argument is consistent with > Smyth's analysis. I would appreciate others' reaction to this second issue. I would argue that the intimacy of mind-body is an inseparable whole or totality and hence dynamical process such that the semantics of separation of Aristotelian causes is irrelevant. The effort to create a distinction between efficient causality and physical efficacy is very very weak as they emerge from the same root. This creative intimacy, of thought to action, is essential, for example, in the performing arts. Indeed it lies at the ground of human communicative capacities - including procreative capacities. Cheers Jerry
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