Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind
by vanderZwan on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:58AM
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I had to look that one up.
It looks like a variant of the philosophical zombie argument, which I always found fascinating because as far as I can see, that one really argues that consciousness is the illusion, not that physicalism is false.
Although I think the main issue might be that the word "illusion" is no really appropriate here. I figure the mind is analogous to a moiré pattern: it's real, it emerges from underlying patterns interacting with each other, it is distinct from those patterns, but it cannot exist without them. Which is probably also why looking for consciousness in the brain is fruitless: you will not find the moiré pattern in its component patterns either.
I was so impressed with myself as an art student that I made an artwork about that. I think that's when I hit peak pretentiousness, glad I switched to programming.
It looks like a variant of the philosophical zombie argument, which I always found fascinating because as far as I can see, that one really argues that consciousness is the illusion, not that physicalism is false.
Although I think the main issue might be that the word "illusion" is no really appropriate here. I figure the mind is analogous to a moiré pattern: it's real, it emerges from underlying patterns interacting with each other, it is distinct from those patterns, but it cannot exist without them. Which is probably also why looking for consciousness in the brain is fruitless: you will not find the moiré pattern in its component patterns either.
I was so impressed with myself as an art student that I made an artwork about that. I think that's when I hit peak pretentiousness, glad I switched to programming.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
[3] http://jobleonard.nl/books/Contemplating/