Re: Re: On Causation with Mind and brain as apples and oranges

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
2-09-24, 09:08:03 Subject: Re: On Causation with Mind and brain as apples and oranges On 9/24/2012 8:12 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King I have trouble conceiving an isomorphism (or anything comparative) between something that is there and something that is not. The something

Re: On Causation with Mind and brain as apples and oranges

2012-09-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/24/2012 8:12 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Stephen P. King I have trouble conceiving an isomorphism (or anything comparative) between something that is there and something that is not. The something that is not there is not the absence of the thing that was, since it has no shape, no location,

Re: Re: On Causation with Mind and brain as apples and oranges

2012-09-24 Thread Roger Clough
. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-22, 16:03:48 Subject: Re: On Causation with Mind and brain as

Re: On Causation with Mind and brain as apples and oranges

2012-09-22 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/22/2012 6:11 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg OK that's the classic example of the pin prick and feeling pain. It works for the worlds of apples and oranges if you accept Hume's and Leibniz's theory of causation, or at least my understanding of it, namely that changes in the menta

On Causation with Mind and brain as apples and oranges

2012-09-22 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Craig Weinberg OK that's the classic example of the pin prick and feeling pain. It works for the worlds of apples and oranges if you accept Hume's and Leibniz's theory of causation, or at least my understanding of it, namely that changes in the mental world are simply synchronized with cha