On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: > > Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for material > things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as numbers. > > > That's something evolution explains. >
Evolution can be used to retrospectively judge that it would be convenient if there were such things as representations, but it offers no such thing as a physical ontology of it. Evolution can also 'explain' why we have teleportation, time travel, and telepathy in the same way. Craig > > Brent > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/aa-VLnv60KkJ. 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.
