On Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:51:40 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: > > On 11 April 2014 02:17, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:55:08 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: >> >>> On 10 April 2014 04:09, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Dreams need not have any possible evolutionary justification, since >>>> their presence or absence is irrelevant to behavior. >>>> >>> >>> My dream caused this thread to come into existence, and you to make the >>> statement quoted above. Hence you have "refuted yourself thus!" :-) >>> >>> >> No, we can't smuggle in our real world experience of dreams affecting our >> behavior into the theoretical world that functionalism would allow. If we >> do, it's begging the question; we are saying in effect 'Music must have an >> effect on cars, since cars come with radios'. Music might make you drive >> your car faster or miss your exit, but that doesn't mean that music itself >> should be explained as arising from the manufacture of automobiles. If you >> look only at what a car requires, and are careful not to smuggle in what >> *your use* of a car includes, then we can see that evolution can only >> really account for physiological behaviors, not subjectivity. All >> subjective experiences could and would be replaced by unconscious >> automation in a purely biological view of life. >> > > Fine, so a counter example is dismissed as "smuggling in" because you > don't like it. When I use a word it means what I want it to mean... ffs. If > that's your idea of a reasonable response, excuse me while I put you on my > ignore list. >
You're projecting your refusal to be wrong on to me. My example stands. It has nothing to do with what I like, it just makes more sense. -- 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/d/optout.
