From: hampday@earthlink.net
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 18:46:16 BST
Platt --
Just a quick follow-up to my earlier post.
According to your friend at nerdshit.com ...
"There are basically just three realistic views about the relation of
mentality and physicality materialism (or mechanism), dualism and
panexperientialism. ... Materialism is the monistic doctrine that all that
exists is matter; if the word consciousness is used it refers to physical
and chemical processes going on in the brain. ...
Dualism says there are two sort of entities, matter and mind--the central
problem for dualists is how mind and matter relate to each other. ...
Panexperientialism is a monistic doctrine that claims that mentality and
physicality are two aspects of the same phenomenon. ...This is the doctrine
of internal relations. It destroys the notion of material substances and
substitutes that of an event. In some sense the word experience or feeling
is relevant at all levels from protons to people. ..."
There must be at least four such "realistic views" then, since Essentialism
claims that "mentality and physicality" are two phenomena of a "monistic"
Essence, not (as Panexperientialism puts it) "two aspects of a phenomenon".
Apparently, like Mr. Pirsig before him, Mr. Nerdshit would have us believe
that the primary source is an "event", and that experience and feeling are
properties of protons and people. This is also Kauffman's view, and I
suspect yours as well; but it is not mine. Absolute Essence is not a
"relation", it is immutably One.
Thanks for this website reference, though -- it's fascinating.
Regards,
Ham
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