Johnicholas comments on How to think like a quantum monadologist - Less Wrong

-14 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 15 October 2009 09:37AM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 16 October 2009 03:01:08PM *  2 points [-]

To expand a bit on what kpreid said:

Mitchell_Porter's second claim: "Therefore consciousness cannot be directly identified with any complex entity built up out of aggregation of parts in space." is NOT falsified by kpreid's example.

However, kpreid has given an example of a very reasonable INDIRECT identification which Mitchell Porter's argument would classify as "dualist". This example illustrates that Mitchell Porter is including far more positions underneath the umbrella of "dualism" than the ordinary "substance dualism" that, for example, Decartes espoused.