[Wittrs] Re: An Issue Worth Focusing On
- From: Rajasekhar Goteti <rgoteti@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 06:29:04 +0530 (IST)
Thinking can be saying things to oneself under a thin description. Under a
thicker description it may be saying things to oneself with the specific
heuristic intention of trying to open one's eyes or consolidate one's grasp. It
is this specific, experimental intention that is obliterated, Ryle tells us, by
sweeping generic slogans such as “Thought is Language” or “Thinking is Saying
Things to Oneself”, whether or not this is supplemented by “…and Something Else
as Well.” The adverb ‘experimentally’ adds not an extra action but the
intention-to-find-out-what-happens-when…. Neither the Reductionist nor the
Duplicationist (the Behaviourist or the Cartesian) can account for the adverb
‘experimentally’.
Stanford encyclopedia
The Top-Down account, that our understandings must begin with the person
who understands and, hence, can't be the result, the effect of any
understanding, doesn't deny the role of the brain in human functioning,
and, more importantly, should be confused with a pan-psychism. Mind
isn't there at the start. Nor is it there at the end. It isn't an "It."
And isn't anywhere.
bruce
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