On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net> wrote:
>> A top-down effect of consciousness on matter could be inferred if >> miraculous events were observed in neurophysiology research. The >> consciousness itself cannot be directly observed. > > > Hi Stathis, > > This would be true only if consciousness is separate from matter, such > as in Descartes failed theory of substance dualism. In the dual aspect > theory that I am arguing for, there would never be any "miracles" that would > contradict physical law. At most there would be statistical deviations from > classical predictions. Check out http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/ratmech.pdf > for details. My support for this theory and not materialism follows from > materialism demonstrated inability to account for 1p. Dual aspect monism has > 1p built in from first principles. BTW, I don't use the term "dualism" any > more as what I am advocating seems to be too easily confused with the failed > version. If there is no causal influence of consciousness on matter and the matter just follows the laws of physics then, if the laws of physics are computable, computationalism is established; and even if the laws of physics are not computable functionalism can still be established. -- 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.
