[FRIAM] Shorthands for Brain-stuff

[Frank Wimberly]

As I understand it the Humpty Dumpty position is that we may as well talk
about mental causation in the traditional ways until science advances on
the topic.  And maybe even then?

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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 12:32 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> He states his Humpty Dumpty preference, and then says wait for the science
> to, in effect, falsify it.  (Noting how it is well on the way to doing just
> that.)   Then there's a lot of in between where he talks in circles.  Don't
> really see the point.
>
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> Yep. But to be fair, that's part of their job, as long as their belief is
> temporary ... for the purposes of playing an idea out to its reasonable
> conclusions. What's inevitable is that any philosopher machine, like any
> machine, will tend to get stuck in some rut as it ages and degrades ...
> until it stops ticking entirely. It's tragic, really. We non-philosophers
> are quite lucky in that, as we degrade, the machine we've built over
> decades wiggles only a little bit around the ephemeris. Barring a
> domain-shattering discovery (or a gaslighting nightmare like Fox News),
> non-philosophers will die believing roughly what they came to believe over
> their lifetime. But for a machine whose purpose it is to swap beliefs like
> hats and scarves, they could land anywhere.
>
> On 10/5/20 10:37 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> > I forget there are philosophers who are prepared to believe, well,
> anything.
>
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