[Wittrs] Re: Minds, Brains and What There Is

From: GEVANS613@xxxxxxx
To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:37:19 EDT
In a message dated 27/09/2009 03:14:26 GMT Daylight Time, SWMirsky@xxxxxxx  
writes:

--- In  Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Cayuse" <z.z7@...> wrote:


I'm not  sure what you have in mind by "eliminativism". If you would 
specify what you  mean AND it is something I think I uderstand, I will offer my 
thoughts, of  course, for what they're worth. As I understand it, 
"eliminativism" is a  particular thesis concerning the mind. What do you take 
this 
thesis to be? Are  you after a discussion of the standard or traditional 
expressions of the  thesis (in which case we can Google it and take what is 
available on wikipedia  and/or the Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy and go 
from  
there.

SWM
Gentlemen: 
I am really enjoying the privilege of eavedropping on your  fascinating 
discussion. If I (as a life-long eliminativist) may make a brief  comment on 
eliminativism? I would like to mention that eliminativism isn't  confined to 
the domain of specialised neurological (Philosophy of Mind)  discourse 
associated with Paul and Mary Churchland (Eliminative Materialism.)  
Eliminativism 
is also very much a psycho-linguistic subject of colloquy nowadays  and I 
see it as the main tool of resistance against the spectre which is  haunting 
philosophy - the spectre of reification - a global reification of  
interpersonal and intersocietal language which has haunted philosophy for  
millennia, 
but has now proliferated and become even more dangerous to human  
understanding and world peace in a way much more dangerous than the ghost of  
Marx's 
communism or Hitler's Nazism which haunted Europe.
 
Sincerely,

Jud Evans
The Athenaeum  Library of Philosophy.

Private Website:  (http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm) 
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm
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Reifications (like  biological entozoic infections of the gut) are
proto -socio-neurological  enculturations and as useful  fictions 
are not  necessarily  symbiotic with,  nor necessarily benignly
adjuvant to the welfare of  their unwitting and often naive hosts. 
Jud Evans.  

Freedom in humans consists of the ability to  liberate
oneself  from the tyranny of  reificationalist  imprinting.  
Antonio Rossin. 
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Sincerely,

Jud Evans

Private  Website:  
(http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm) 
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm
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Reifications (like  biological entozoic infections of the gut) are
proto -socio-neurological  enculturations and as useful  fictions 
are not  necessarily  symbiotic with,  nor necessarily benignly
adjuvant to the welfare of  their unwitting and often naive hosts. 
Jud Evans.  

Freedom in humans consists of the ability to  liberate
oneself  from the tyranny of  reificationalist  imprinting.  
Antonio Rossin. 
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[Wittrs] Re: Minds, Brains and What There Is

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