On 04 Feb 2014, at 00:25, David Nyman wrote:
On 3 February 2014 23:08, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
Sometimes a problem hangs around a long time because people have a
prejudice that the answer must take a certain form. People thought
about gravity in terms of "What is it about things that makes some
of them want to go down and others go up?" They thought of heat as
being a fluid and tried to study it's properties. Later, when a
good theory has been developed, they often overlook the fact that
the new theory *did not* answer the old questions. It was *not* the
explanation the had sought. But it was better and it created new
questions.
Wise words. I just hope we both live long enough to see it fulfilled
in this case.
I am willing to argue that this is already the case. But of course
people have to understand the mind-body problem, before understanding
its solution, or the best possible solution in the context of
computationalism.
Bruno
David
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