Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 May 2012, at 14:23, Craig Weinberg wrote: On May 28, 4:55 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: In first person, space is figurative and time is literal. Why? The split between interior significance (doing*being)(timespace) and exterior entropy (matter/energy)/spacetime

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-29 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 28.05.2012 22:42 Bruno Marchal said the following: On 28 May 2012, at 21:09, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Bruno, I believe that this time I could say that you express your position. For example in your two answers below it does not look like I don't defend that position. I don't think so. I

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-28 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
On 27.05.2012 23:04 Stephen P. King said the following: On 5/27/2012 4:07 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: ... A good extension. Velmans does not consider such a case but he says that the perceptions are located exactly where one perceives them. In this case, it seems that it should not pose an

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-28 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 28, 4:55 am, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: In first person, space is figurative and time is literal. Why? The split between interior significance (doing*being)(timespace) and exterior entropy (matter/energy)/spacetime prefigures causality. Causality is part of 'doing', a

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-28 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Bruno, I believe that this time I could say that you express your position. For example in your two answers below it does not look like I don't defend that position. On 28.05.2012 10:55 Bruno Marchal said the following: I comment on both Evgenii and Craig's comment: On May 26, 11:57 am,

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-27 Thread Richard Ruquist
Velmans introduces perceptual projection but this remains as the Hard Problem in his book, how exactly perceptual projection happens-Evgenii Rudnyi I conjecture that the discrete nonphysical particles of compactified space, the so-called Calabi-Yau Manifolds of string theory, have perceptual

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-27 Thread meekerdb
On 5/27/2012 2:04 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: This does seem to imply an interesting situation where the mind/consciousness of the observer is in a sense no longer confined to being 'inside the skull but ranging out to the farthest place where something is percieved. It seems to me that

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On May 27, 5:45 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/27/2012 2:04 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:     This does seem to imply an interesting situation where the mind/consciousness of the observer is in a sense no longer confined to being 'inside the skull but ranging out to the

Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-26 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
I have just finished reading Understanding Consciousness by Max Velmans and below there are a couple of comments to the book. The book is similar to Jeffrey Gray's Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem in a sense that it takes phenomenal consciousness seriously. Let me give an

Re: Max Velmans' Reflexive Monism

2012-05-26 Thread Stephen P. King
On 5/26/2012 11:57 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: I have just finished reading Understanding Consciousness by Max Velmans and below there are a couple of comments to the book. The book is similar to Jeffrey Gray's Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem in a sense that it takes phenomenal