Re: Debunking simplistic physicalism

On Sep 17, 4:39 pm, Neil W Rickert <rickert...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
feedbackdroids <feedbackdro...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sep 16, 5:53=A0pm, Neil W Rickert <rickert...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
By the way, I didn't respond to your last post because your
"explanation" was a google search with over a million hits.
That's not any kind of explanation. =A0You need to do better at
communicating your point.
I was simply referencing Dobzhansky's quote.

I guessed that you might have been intending that.  But I have no
idea why.  Dobzhansky was commenting on what makes sense in biology,
not in what makes sense in philosophical discussions of cognition.
So I still have no clue as to what point you thought you were making.



DOH. I guess cognitive beings [namely us] are certainly not biological
beings.
Still immersed in dualism?



Your just quibbling. A zebra must accurately perceive the difference
between a lion and another zebra.

Wrong.  The zebra needs to discriminate between a lion and another
zebra.  But it does not need to accurately perceive the difference
(as if "accurately perceive the difference" actually meant anything).



This is just quibbling. No matter how you choose to phrase it, the
zebra will get the short end of the natural selection stick if it
fails to do the perception properly.




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