On 25 September 2013 15:41, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 9/24/2013 6:32 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 25 September 2013 13:38, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au>wrote: > >> This is also true of materialism. Whether you think this is a problem >> or not depends on whether you think the "hard problem" is a problem or >> not. >> > > Indeed. I was about to say something similar (to the effect that it's > hard to imagine how "mere atoms" can have sights, sounds, smells etc > either). > > > As a rule, if you want to explain X you need to start from something > without X. > > Absolutely.
If you know of such an explanation, or even the outlines of one, I'd be interested to hear it. As Russell said, this is the so-called "hard problem" so any light (or sound, touch etc) on it would be welcome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
