[Wittrs] Re: are objects causal
- From: "jrstern" <jrstern@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:34 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "SWM" <SWMirsky@...> wrote:
>
> I do not subscribe to anything I would call "physicalism" because, frankly, I
> just don't know how the world REALLY is.
An important point.
Neither do I.
I have no ontological theory of the world.
What I know to be physical is the computer, and the human agent.
And I have this in common with Searle, he too insists on a physicalist theory
for a physical (biological) agent, he just insists on an unknown physics.
Fodor sort of does in that he insists on a naturalist theory and points out
that Chomsky does not, entirely - but then Fodor goes and supports goofy ideas
like innateness right out of Chomsky, and there it goes again.
Cogito ergo physicalism.
Josh
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