On 6 February 2014 14:16, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know. I suspect Liz was being a little overeager in > attributing 1p phenomena to the explanatory reach of the block > universe, but it could be she's a closet eliminative materialist, in > which case, yes, we have a fundamental disagreement on the ontology of > consciousness. > My position is that (since today has an R in it) I accept there is a problem with consciousness supervening on matter, and hence no materialist (physicalist?) theory can explain consciousness (except by claiming there is no such thing). However, the *contents *of consciousness (sense impressions, memories) *can*be attributed to a material structure interacting with a physical environment, and those are due to processes that are embedded in space-time. > > Nevertheless, within the framework of the block universe, there is no > movement, as such, of any entity within spacetime. Of that, there is > no disagreement. > Agreed! All movement is in space; space-time is (according to special and general relativity) a fixed 4D arena. -- 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.
