[Serious Phil] Rejecting the Hypothesis of Phenomenal Information

[iro3isdx]

--- In Phil-Sci-Mind at yahoogroups.com, "SWM" <Philscimind at ...> wrote:


> responding to message 2779


> SWM:
> But we have still to ascertain the relationship between syntax
> and semantics.

Why is this treated as a mystery, when we can observe it being done?


> SWM:
> Our "world" consists of the representational mappings we build and
> maintain in our heads. There is good reason to believe that these
> mappings have some degree of accuracy (I would argue a fairly high
> degree) so they ARE the world we connect with, i.e., representing
> seems to be how we connect with external stimuli.

That's standard representationalist dogma.  I cannot find any actual 
basis for it.

The odd thing is that your statement of representationalism is 
thoroughly dualist, yet you are forever criticizing dualism.

Regards,
Neil