From: John Maher (jozabad2001@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 17:36:46 GMT
Hi Patrick,
What 'seems like dualism' to you is not dualism in any
meaningful sense of the word.
Correlating cognitive events with brain events is no
more indicative of dualism than the fact that the
sound a record player produces correlates to the state
of the groove on the record. It would be silly to
conclude that there are two irreducible aspects of the
universe; sounds and grooves, yet this is just what
you suggest others do with mind and matter.
Furthermore, there is no reason to conclude that a NCC
shows cause and effect or otherwise explains
consciousness. It attempts to show, by definition,
only a correlation.
If you throw everyone into the 'dualist' bag it is
perhaps unsurprising that you can't find philosophers
who think otherwise, which answers your final
question.
John
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