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Since you've read both books would you mind just summing up the jist of it.
by superk 16y ago
Since you've read both books would you mind just summing up the jist of it.
- mjgoins 16y agoYes, the gist of both books is "There is no mysterious stuff out there, we don't need God or even physics to explain the mind, it's all just computation happening in your brain. Both consciousness and free will are ways of describing some of the stuff that your brain does." He's essentially a Functionalist. But he makes his arguments convincing. The convincing-ness cannot be summed up more briefly than he does in his books.