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Or as the Wikipedia article on Eliminative Materialism succinctly puts it: >Another view is that eliminativism assumes the existence of the beliefs and other e
by anon84873628 2y ago
Or as the Wikipedia article on Eliminative Materialism succinctly puts it:
>Another view is that eliminativism assumes the existence of the beliefs and other entities it seeks to "eliminate" and is thus self-refuting.
That said, Illusionism should not be seen as a "hail mary pass attempt to save reductive physicalism". From the same Wiki page:
>In the context of materialist understandings of psychology, eliminativism is the opposite of reductive materialism, [which argues] that mental states as conventionally understood do exist, and directly correspond to the physical state of the nervous system.
The last line is a link to the page for "neural correlates of consciousness". The evidence for which, to me, sure suggests that there is a casual relationship between physical and mental events.
- ronjobber 2y agoThe evidence for which, to me, sure suggests that there is a casual relationship between physical and mental events. I think it's a bit funny to call this a causal relationship. People do it all the time and what is meant depends on the meaning of "cause", but it is a bit ambiguous here if the physical events are other events that cause the mental events. My mental model of reductive physicalism is that the physical events are the mental events, i.e. the mental event occurs if and only if the physical event occurs.