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- Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:23 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Why the Hard Problem isn't
- Replies: 46
- Views: 73898
Re: Why the Hard Problem isn't
You are missing the point that Zombies are advanced to make. One of the main points of the p-zombie idea is that if they're logically possible, then physicalism is not true. If I successfully argue that p-zombies are not logically possible, then physicalism is not demonstrably false. Secondly, if s...
- Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:14 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Why the Hard Problem isn't
- Replies: 46
- Views: 73898
Re: Why the Hard Problem isn't
I think p-zombies are definitely physically impossible, but also metaphysically impossible because the very idea constitutes a contradiction. Like the paradoxical question "can an omnipotent God create a rock so big that he can't lift it", the paradox of the p-zombie that can answer questions about...
- Sat Aug 06, 2016 1:56 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Why the Hard Problem isn't
- Replies: 46
- Views: 73898
Re: Why the Hard Problem isn't
Perhaps p-zombies are physically impossible in this world with its given laws. That's not the point. The point is about metaphysical possibility and logical entailment. I think p-zombies are definitely physically impossible, but also metaphysically impossible because the very idea constitutes a con...
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 2:21 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Why the Hard Problem isn't
- Replies: 46
- Views: 73898
Re: Why the Hard Problem isn't
I fooled you by returning to the argument that I started with which alluded you completely. No, I was expecting you to do this. See where I wrote "My guess is that Metacrock either throws this entire argument out without addressing its resolution [...]"? I would appreciate it if you gave my opening...
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 12:41 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Why the Hard Problem isn't
- Replies: 46
- Views: 73898
Re: Why the Hard Problem isn't
How can a physical structure (the brain) emulate a metaphysical process? No, you're begging the question when you say "emulate a metaphysical process." The real issue is that consciousness (qualia, experience) doesn't even seem necessary for biological function, but is (conceptually) superfluous to...
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:25 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Why the Hard Problem isn't
- Replies: 46
- Views: 73898
Why the Hard Problem isn't
Metacrock wrote: one thing that occurs to me is the correlation between the hard problem, Dasein and Being itself. If you understand the Hard problem you basically understand the other two. It's time to revisit naturalistic perspectives on consciousness. Let's start with a p-zombie paradox. Let's as...
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:34 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: being and depth
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36042
Re: being and depth
Joe, I'm sorry to have made you angry. I don't have an entire summer's worth of time to spend reading any particular thing, but I'm not completely without erudition. My admittedly shallow insight into Tillich is that he considered the numinous to be the object of ultimate concern, not death (as you ...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 3:00 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: being and depth
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36042
Re: being and depth
You used a lot of words to say very little. For the moment, I'll accept Tillich's premise that "infinite depth and ground of being" is God and that the realisation that being has depth is equivalent to the realization that God is real. I posted that because I'm combining two different chapters from...
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 4:37 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: being and depth
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36042
Re: being and depth
You used a lot of words to say very little. For the moment, I'll accept Tillich's premise that "infinite depth and ground of being" is God and that the realisation that being has depth is equivalent to the realisation that God is real. What remains is the question of what is "infinite depth and grou...
- Fri Jun 17, 2016 2:05 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: The great psychosis of the person who
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14349
Re: The great psychosis of the person who
Sgttomas, I think we've always had a lot of common ground, but tend to express ourselves very differently and, lacking a common language, don't understand each other very well. It's odd. I wish I had more time tonight to write a proper response. I'll try to be quick ;) My group identity has been pre...