By materialist, he really means atheist or non-Christian. On Sunday, December 1, 2013 12:04:50 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > 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]. >> 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. >> >
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