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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Consciousness (was Re: Daniel Dennett)
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Date: 27 Nov 91 04:02:35 GMT
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In article <1991Nov26.232035.5031@milton.u.washington.edu> 
monaghan@milton.u.washington.edu (Tracy Monaghan) writes:

>In article <1991Nov26.135953.5926@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>Instead, I'll suggest a reductio ad absurdum of the AI view.  Assume that
>>the mind is reducible to the functioning of the brain.  

TM:
>Hold your horses there, partner.  Are you implying that the mind exists
>beyond the functioning of the brain?

Exactly.

TM:
>                                     That there is some 'magik' going on?

Not at all.  Spinoza was able to give a perfectly good rationalist theory
of mind that stipulated panpsychism, among other thing.  In other words,
you needn't appeal to "magik" to ascribe consciousness to a rock; likewise,
you needn't appeal to "magik" to explain consciousness in non-materialistic
terms.  

TM:
>Pray tell what are you removing/losing in reducing the mind to the
>functioning of the brain.

As I have argued, you lose the possibility of explaining semantical
understanding as a function of the mind.

>Cheers,
>
>Tracy
>monagahn@u.washington.edu

Regards,
MZ

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