[Serious Phil] Rejecting the Hypothesis of Phenomenal Information

[SWM]

--- In Phil-Sci-Mind at yahoogroups.com, "SWM" <Philscimind at ...> wrote:
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> --- In Phil-Sci-Mind at yahoogroups.com, "iro3isdx" <Philscimind@> wrote:
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> > --- In Phil-Sci-Mind at yahoogroups.com, "SWM" <Philscimind@> wrote:
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> > > responding to message 2779
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> > > SWM:h
> > > But we have still to ascertain the relationship between syntax
> > > and semantics.
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> > Why is this treated as a mystery, when we can observe it being done?
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> How?
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> > > 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.
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> > That's standard representationalist dogma.  I cannot find any actual 
> > basis for it.
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> > The odd thing is that your statement of representationalism is 
> > thoroughly dualist, yet you are forever criticizing dualism.
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> > Regards,
> > Neil
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> Is criticizing choosing duaIism to criticize realism?
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> And what would make you think that a representationalist account implies dualism
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Aaaagggh!  That should say dualism, NOT realism! These tablets which automatically correct one's spelling (syntactically of course) are a major pain!!!!!

SWM





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