Re: what is mechanism?

2012-04-10 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
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 about physicalism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/

Re: deism and Newton

2012-04-10 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Brent, By 'ideal scientific standards' I have meant for example this statement from Wikipedia 'The Oxford English Dictionary says that scientific method is: "a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement

Re: The Mind Outside My Head

2012-04-10 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 int