On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 February 2015 at 12:59, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > As I understand it, being an epiphenomenon means one can give a causal > > account of the phenomenon without mentioning it. But the epiphenomenon > > necessarily accompanies the phenomenon. In the case of consciousness > it's > > essentially denying the possibility of a philosophical zombie. > > Yes, that's how I would put it. > > > What Brent describes sounds more like emergence to me than epiphenominalism. See how epiphenominalism is decribed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/ Perhaps all of our disagreement comes down to operating under different definitions? Jason -- 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.
