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Article #410Re: qualia
From: Christopher Green
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:46
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:46
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In article <BzIq0w.GLy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes: >In article <1992Dec19.052445.25173@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes: > >>NO NO NO YOU NINNY!!! under functionalism, brain stuff will never tell you >>about MIND stuff. (Whata dope!) > >Even apart from the typo, this is just silly. Presumably we're all >functionalists about car engines (to be a car engine is to be something >that plays the appropriate sort of causal role in a car), but you can >find out an awful lot about engines by looking under the hood. > It may, but it needn't, is the point. I may have overstated the case, but I was trying to distinguish type-identity theory from the token-identity theory for someone who apparently hadn't heard the news. -- 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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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!psych.toronto.edu!christo From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) Subject: Re: qualia Message-ID: <1992Dec20.004612.11906@psych.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto References: <1992Dec19.052247.25070@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Dec19.052445.25173@psych.toronto.edu> <BzIq0w.GLy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:46:12 GMT Lines: 21