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Of all thought experiments, I've found the billion workers communicating with 1 and 0's to be the strongest illustration of the mind/body problem. It is just ab
by mjrpes 8y ago
Of all thought experiments, I've found the billion workers communicating with 1 and 0's to be the strongest illustration of the mind/body problem. It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there.
I've wondered, too, whether there is a connection between the mind/body problem and the problem of existence (why is there something rather than nothing). These two problems seem to be fundamentally insurmountable.
- mr_toad 8y ago> It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there. You’re just begging the question. ‘It sounds absurd’, is not a cogent argument.
- mjrpes 8y agoI gave my intuition. There is no argument here.
- mcguire 8y ago"It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there." At the risk of losing my junior philosopher's secret decoder ring, I feel the need to point out that most philosophical writing is an elaborate logical ediface erected in support of the writer's previously existing, unreasoned prejudices.