On 25 Dec 2012, at 09:47, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Jason Resch
No, the issue of consciousness is not a condition caused by
pragmatics,
the use of language.
I agree. Consciousness is deeper and more primitive than language,
although self-consciousness appears together with the ability to
develop language and symbolism.
Consciousness/life/intelligence (subjectivity, or knowledge by
acquaintance or 1p)
is fundamentally different from anyhing objective (physical or
(knowledge by description or 3p). Materialism cannot properly
deal with knowledge by acquaintance (1p), can only deal with 3p.
Materialism can explain a lot. But then it is simply inconsistent with
comp, and the appearance of matter has to be explained by statistics
on (arithmetical) computations.
The brief version of this is that Cs is personal, not impersonal.
1p is slo the mysterious world of solipsism, which does not exist
in the physical world. It is the world of the Tao Te Ching
("What is spoken of as the Tao is not the tao").
God has no name, OK. And 1p is the "inner God", who inherit his lack
of name from the lack of name of the "outer God".
Bruno
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net]
12/25/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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Time: 2012-12-24, 11:20:22
Subject: Re: Re: How visual images are produced in the brain. Was
Dennettrightafter all ?
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net>
wrote:
Hi Jason Resch
I would define consciousness as perception,
爀ither internal or external, by any of the senses.
So it is an activity, a verb, not a thing or noun.
Language is very flexible. 燨ften nouns are formed to describe what
are fundamentally activities (e.g., a party, a dance, Brownian
motion, (radioactive) decay, a race, etc.). 營 agree with you that
consciousness is fundamentally an activity.
Jason
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