Re:Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fer...
by walleeee on Sunday October 20, 2024 @02:04PM
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To quote Penrose:
"I don't like the word materialism because we don't know what the material is."
It's all a quandary, no? Wonderfully useful predictive models aside, we have almost as little metaphysical/ontological purchase as we have w.r.t. qualia.
And though it is difficult to argue with physicalism (broadly conceived), there are compelling critiques of reductive physicalism.
"I don't like the word materialism because we don't know what the material is."
It's all a quandary, no? Wonderfully useful predictive models aside, we have almost as little metaphysical/ontological purchase as we have w.r.t. qualia.
And though it is difficult to argue with physicalism (broadly conceived), there are compelling critiques of reductive physicalism.