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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Penrose's new book
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In article <37eepq$ruo@newsbf01.news.aol.com> jrstern@aol.com (JRStern) writes:
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>But that's the punchline here - Penrose is true to his physics paradigm
>and wants desparately to be monist/materialist, not dualist, and to have
>nothing but physical law at work.  Yet his "mysterian" arguments sound to
>you and me like dualism or worse!

Oh Yeah?  Just what problems does it share with dualism?

Functionalism has something in common w/ dualism, btw, such as
suggesting a mind might move from one body to another, so perhaps
sounding like dualism isn't so bad after all?

>It's the bastardized physics that is out-of-date, IMHO.

Heh, heh.


