Hi Stathis Papaioannou You say that if a person behaves as if he has a mind, then he does have a mind.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/21/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-21, 03:37:19 Subject: Re: The circular logic of Dennett and other materialists On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Bruno Marchal > > This is also where I run into trouble with the p-zombie > definition of what a zombie is. It has no mind > but it can still behave just as a real person would. > > But that assumes, as the materialists do, that the mind > has no necessary function. Which is nonsense, at least > to a realist. > > Thus Dennett claims that a real candidate person > does not need to have a mind. But that's in his > definition of what a real person is. That's circular logic. Not really, he claims that zombies do not exist and if an entity (human, computer, whatever) behaves as if it has a mind, then it does have a mind. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
