Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-06 Thread Rex Allen
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 9/4/2010 5:28 PM, Rex Allen wrote: That still makes them physicalist theories, not quasi-physicalist. As long as the mad scientist and his vats/computers are physical. Does this mad scientist have free will,

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-06 Thread Rex Allen
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:13 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: Brent and Rex: after many many discussions I suffered along - reading utter stupidity, Ouch! this one is a refreshingly reasonable one. Excellent! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-06 Thread Brent Meeker
On 9/6/2010 6:45 PM, Rex Allen wrote: On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Brent Meekermeeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 9/4/2010 5:28 PM, Rex Allen wrote: That still makes them physicalist theories, not quasi-physicalist. As long as the mad scientist and his vats/computers are

Re: What's wrong with this?

2010-09-06 Thread Rex Allen
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote: On 9/6/2010 6:45 PM, Rex Allen wrote: I would say that physicalism is the claim that *all* conscious experiences are due to the independent existence of some other more fundamental set of entities (particles, fields,