Re: The Mind Outside My Head

2012-04-11 Thread meekerdb
On 4/10/2012 11:08 PM, John wrote: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/apr/10/mind-outside-head-consciousness/ It is a more extreme version of a view I have long held that consciousness is relative to an external environment and without that environment the the brain would devolve

Re: what is mechanism?

2012-04-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Apr 2012, at 21:21, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 09.04.2012 18:58 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 09 Apr 2012, at 16:35, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... I believe that now I understand what physicalism is. What would you recommend to read about mechanism? Something like this SEP paper

Re: The Mind Outside My Head

2012-04-11 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 11.04.2012 08:36 meekerdb said the following: On 4/10/2012 11:08 PM, John wrote: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/apr/10/mind-outside-head-consciousness/ It is a more extreme version of a view I have long held that consciousness is relative to an external environment and

Re: The Mind Outside My Head

2012-04-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Apr 2012, at 18:02, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: On 11.04.2012 08:36 meekerdb said the following: On 4/10/2012 11:08 PM, John wrote: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/apr/10/mind-outside-head-consciousness/ It is a more extreme version of a view I have long held that

Re: Primitive Awareness and Symmetry

2012-04-11 Thread Redshirt Bluejacket
As this topic is touching on both philosophical zombies and deism, I recommend a reading of Bernardo Kastrup's essay, The parallels of Pandeism: http://www.bernardokastrup.com/2010/03/consciousness-and-pandeism.html -- wherein Kastrup observes some intriguing parallels between the debate around