[Wittrs] Re: When is "brain talk" really dualism?
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:59:55 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Stuart W. Mirsky" <SWMirsky@...> wrote:
>> What does that even mean? In what way is having a mental life
>> different from having a life?
> It refers to having subjective (private) experience. After all it
> is at least imaginable that many living things lack the ability to
> experience subjectively. What of the jellyfish? The earthworm? They
> are alive, have lives in that sense, and yet I think there is a
> good possibility that they are organic automatons (or the closest
> thing to it).
Terry Schiavo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case> was
alive in the biological sense, yet most people would have said that she
did not have a life.
Regards,
Neil
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