Re: qualia

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From: Christopher Green
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:24

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In article <1992Dec19.052247.25070@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
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>"Somehow" leaves an awful lot of slack, and does *not* rule out principled
>problems. In fact, the most popular analysis of the mind-brain relation
>poses just such a principled problem. If you're a token identity materialist
>(as all functionalists are) then although mind stuff supervenes on brain
>stuff, brain stuff will never tell you about brain stuff. There's another
                                              ^^^^^
                                              ?!?!? 

NO NO NO YOU NINNY!!! under functionalism, brain stuff will never tell you
about MIND stuff. (Whata dope!)

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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

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Subject: Re: qualia
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