Hi Stephen P. King
The other minds problem ("How do I know that there are other minds ?")
is indeed an impossible to crack nut if you are a solipsist. So
solipsim is perhaps the only philiosophy impossible to
disprove. Or prove, I think.
Leibniz was not a solipsist.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/16/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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Subject: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers
On 9/15/2012 9:12 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
And then there is Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles, identity
there meaning that you only need one of them, throw the rest away.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/15/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
Hi Roger,
Yes but! We have to solve the "other minds" problem or be content to simmer
in our solipsist state of being. This requires something "external" to the
singleton sets of objects. We need to have "room to make copies" of that would
be otherwise identical objects.
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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