PX did parody we didn't notice, embarrassed!The Pixie wrote:At last! Yes, my argument was lame and invalid to start with. It was parodying the argument in the OP, and I was hoping people would have spotted that two pages ago.met wrote:What are you talking about?
... that your argument was lame and invalid to start with?
"All the crows we know are black, therefore it follows that all crows are!"It is not. All the minds we know reside in a physical structure, therefore it must follow that all minds do.
"All the crows we know are black, therefore it follows that all crows are!"
"All the minds we know are in physical structures, therefore it follows that all minds are!"
"All the organisation we see comes from minds, therefore it follows that all organisation does!"
They are all nonsense.
Mind is the best organizing principle we know.
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Re: Mind is the best organizing principle we know.
Metacrock wrote:very insightful Met thanks for makimng my views sound sophisticated,met wrote:Could be, but Joe's real point is a bit subler, and part of a larger argument that we have to assume some organizing principle - aka the "TS" - since one is implicit in the very act of thinking ( according to him), so we may as well assume the "best" one - since we'll be assuming one anyway.
He also talks about some other possible Op's, so "mind" is not the only one. And, he'd argue, if there is a " better" one it would have to include and subsume mind too, with all minds unique capacities....
well, I saw these ideas before somewhere?
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