Chalmers a materialist? That seems like a pretty bizarre and/or uninformed description, given that the idea he is best-known for is that the "hard problem" of first-person qualia can never be solved by materialist explanations (even if the so-called "easy problem" of explaining third-person behaviors, including everything we say and write, probably could be), and requires either a dualist ontology or a panpsychist idealist one (although he argues that even if we accept panpsychism, it would still be a "dual-aspect" theory since there would be a distinction between "information states" and the qualia associated with each one). Have you read his book "The Conscious Mind"?
Jesse On Saturday, November 30, 2013, Roger Clough wrote: > Online opinions of Dennett and Chalmers-- the clueless two > > Dennett never tells us what conscilousness is, because > conciouness rwequires a perceiver, and he hasn't a clue as to what that is, > because that concept is foreign to his materialism. > > He's clueless. And famous as well maybe because with that > beard he looks like a philosopher ought to look. > > Chalmers is in the same hole as Dennett is > he is also a materialist wuithout a perceiver. > With his long wild hair he may seem to some to > know what he's talking about. But he's also > clueless, which is why we have the "hard problem > of consciousnwess > > > Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > gh <http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough> > > > ------------------------------ > <http://www.avast.com/> > > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! > Antivirus<http://www.avast.com/>protection is active. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'everything-list%[email protected]');>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
