Ben Goertzel wrote:
Ed / Richard,
It seems to me that Richard's propsal is in large part a modernization
of Peirce's metaphysical analysis of awareness.
Peirce introduced foundational metaphysical categories of First, Second
and Third ... where First is defined as raw unanalyzable awareness/being ...
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/firstness.html
To me, Richard's analysis sounds a lot like Peirce's statement that
consciousness is First...
And Ed's refutation sounds like a rejection of First as a meaningful
category, and an attempt to redirect the conversation to the level of
Third...
Sorry to be negative, but no, my proposal is not in any way a
modernization of Peirce's metaphysical analysis of awareness.
The standard meaning of Hard Problem issues was described very well by
Chalmers, and I am addressing the hard problem of concsciousness, not
the other problems.
Ed is talking about consciousness in a way that plainly wanders back and
forth between Hard Problem issues and Easy Problem, and as such he has
misunderstood the entirety of what I wrote in the paper.
It might be arguable that my position relates to Feigl, but even that is
significantly different.
Richard Loosemore
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