Posted: Jun 10, 2018 2:02 pm
ughaibu wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that a physicalist theory of perception is absurd? Have you never heard explanations of sight or hearing in terms of external physical entities interacting with physical sense organs and being transmitted by electro-chemical processes to the brain, a physical organ? And are you suggesting that minds are not things that arise in and are irremovable from brains?GrahamH wrote:If you think 'mind' is something like molecules, with perceptions being physical things that move into 'mind' then of course simulations can't do that, but such a position is arguably more absurd than the views you like to deride.
Your posts are absurd.