On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 12:25:38 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 10 May 2019, at 09:12, Philip Thrift <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > When someone says "consciousness is not a material thing" I think of Wile > E. Coyote. > > Consciousnesses need something (matter) to hang on to. Consciousnesses > just don't go floating around willy-nilly. The Coyote finds that out when > he finds out he is hanging on to nothing, and looks down. > > > > That is nice Aristotelian poetry. But you just repeat you ontological > commitment in a material world, where no physicist has a consistent theory > of it, nor even have tried to test its existence. What the Aspect > experience has only shown, is that IF there is a physicaly reality then it > can’t be a boolean reality (which would have already annoyed Aristotle). > > Then with Mechanism, “Matter” invocation needs to add some magic > incompatible with YD+CT. > It is like invoking a God to impeach testing simpler theories which do not > commit a so strong ontological commitment. > > Bruno >
I was shooting for Epicurean poetry (or Lucretian; Lucretius's *De rerum natur*a [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_rerum_natura ] was a poem about the philosophy of Epicurus). Aristotle's philosophy is *confused nonsense*, especially when compared to Epicurus's. @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b0f3ab8f-d71f-4beb-bdad-a4fdb2dd2e13%40googlegroups.com.
