, we'd have to invent him so
everything could function.
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From: Bruno Marchal
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Time: 2012-08-18, 06:38:30
Subject: Re: Homunculi
Hi Roger,
On 17 Aug 2012, at 21:35, Roger wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
More simply, materialism contains
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything
could function.
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Time: 2012-08-16, 05:02:41
Subject: Re: Homunculi
On 15 Aug 2012, at 14:16, Roger wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
On 8/17/2012 12:35 PM, Roger wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
More simply, materialism contains no concept of a singular focussed agent, the
self.
So it cannot explain very much,
On the contrary, it has the hope of explaining the self - whereas assuming the self does
not.
Brent
for the self
On 15 Aug 2012, at 14:16, Roger wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
The materialists don't seem to have a very specific idea of what
governs us (the self)
and its actual (live) governing. The self is something like a
homunculus, which as
Dennet correctly remarks, leads to an infinite regress in
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