On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:38, Brent Meeker wrote:
> Talk about consciousness will seem as quaint
> as talk about the elan vital does now.
Then you are led to eliminativism of consciousness. This makes MEC+MAT
trivially coherent. The price is big: consciousness does no more
exist, like the "e
Kory Heath wrote:
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> On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> Doesn't the question go away if it is nomologically impossible?
>
> I'm sort of the opposite of you on this issue. You don't like to use
> the term "logically possible", while I don't like to use the term
> "nomologica
On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
> Doesn't the question go away if it is nomologically impossible?
I'm sort of the opposite of you on this issue. You don't like to use
the term "logically possible", while I don't like to use the term
"nomologically impossible". I don't see th
Kory Heath wrote:
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> On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> I think you really you mean nomologically possible.
>
> I mean logically possible, but I'm happy to change it to
> "nomologically possible" for the purposes of this conversation.
Doesn't the question go away if it is n
On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Brent Meeker wrote:
> I think you really you mean nomologically possible.
I mean logically possible, but I'm happy to change it to
"nomologically possible" for the purposes of this conversation.
> I think Dennett changes the question by referring to
> neurophysio
Kory Heath wrote:
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> On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> So I'm puzzled as to how answer Bruno's question. In general I
>> don't believe in
>> zombies, but that's in the same way I don't believe my glass of
>> water will
>> freeze at 20degC. It's an opinion about what is li
On 20 Nov 2008, at 00:19, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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>> Could you alter the so-lucky cosmic explosion beam a little bit so
>> that Alice still succeed her math exam, but is, reasonably enough, a
>> zombie during the exam. With zombie taken in the traditional sense
>> of
>> Kory and Dennett.
>> Of
On 19 Nov 2008, at 22:43, Brent Meeker wrote:
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> Bruno Marchal wrote:
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>> On 19 Nov 2008, at 16:06, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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>>> Bruno,
>>>
If no one objects, I will present MGA 2 (soon).
>>> I also agree completely and am curious to see where this is going.
>>> Please continue!
>>
>>
On Nov 19, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
> So I'm puzzled as to how answer Bruno's question. In general I
> don't believe in
> zombies, but that's in the same way I don't believe my glass of
> water will
> freeze at 20degC. It's an opinion about what is likely, not what is
> possi
> Could you alter the so-lucky cosmic explosion beam a little bit so
> that Alice still succeed her math exam, but is, reasonably enough, a
> zombie during the exam. With zombie taken in the traditional sense of
> Kory and Dennett.
> Of course you have to keep well *both* MECH *and* MAT.
I thin
Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> On 19 Nov 2008, at 16:06, Telmo Menezes wrote:
>
>
>> Bruno,
>>
>>> If no one objects, I will present MGA 2 (soon).
>> I also agree completely and am curious to see where this is going.
>> Please continue!
>
>
> Thanks Telmo, thanks also to Gordon.
>
> I will try to
On 19 Nov 2008, at 16:06, Telmo Menezes wrote:
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> Bruno,
>
>> If no one objects, I will present MGA 2 (soon).
>
> I also agree completely and am curious to see where this is going.
> Please continue!
Thanks Telmo, thanks also to Gordon.
I will try to send MGA 2 asap. But this asks me some t
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