Le 31-oct.-08, à 06:39, Russell Standish a écrit :
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:48:11PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Physical supervenience is the conjunction of the following >> assumptions: >> >> -There is a physical universe >> -I am conscious (consciousness exists) >> -(My) consciousness (at time x, t) supervenes on some physical >> activity, at time (x, t) of a portion of the physical universe. > > Supervenience (of consciousness on brain states) is just the latter > two assumptions. The brain need not exist in some concrete fashion. It > could be > some illusionary phenomena for instance. > > I took your work as negating the conjunction of the first assumption > and computationalism, but saying nothing about the latter two. I don't understand. The first assumption (there is a physical universe) is needed for giving sense to the third assumption which use that physical universe. Regards, Bruno Marchal http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
