84,181
edits
Template:Causal intervention and symbolic language: Difference between revisions
Template:Causal intervention and symbolic language (view source)
Revision as of 14:48, 15 November 2022
, 15 November 2022no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
Now, [[philosophy]] nuts: recall from your ''God, Mind and Free Will'' intro lectures the materialist “clincher” that proved consciousness must be wholly material: ''there is no evidence for non-material causal interventions in the physical world''. If there were, there would be some kind of injection or leakage of energy into the physical system. But there is not: energy is conserved. A non-material consciousness to would invalidate the laws of thermodynamics: non-material consciousness breaks rules of thermodynamics, in other words. Game over. | Now, [[philosophy]] nuts: recall from your ''God, Mind and Free Will'' intro lectures the materialist “clincher” that proved consciousness must be wholly material: ''there is no evidence for non-material causal interventions in the physical world''. If there were, there would be some kind of injection or leakage of energy into the physical system. But there is not: energy is conserved. A non-material consciousness to would invalidate the laws of thermodynamics: non-material consciousness breaks rules of thermodynamics, in other words. Game over. | ||
But, hold on: this | But, hold on: this, as [[Daniel Dennett]] articulates it, is exactly {{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}. [[Evolution]] is an [[algorithm]]ic process. It is, in its most abstract sense, a manipulation of symbolic logic. And isn’t this ''exactly'' what a symbolic language does? It operates on a [[Metaphor|figurative]] level: it injects meaning independent of the substrate in which it is articulated, without the need for any physical causal intervention? Thermodynamics are irrelevant to the conveyance of a meaning which itself undoubtedly changes the physical universe. A new organism is created. | ||
''This non-material intellectual structure has a direct causal effect on the physical world.'' | ''This non-material intellectual structure has a direct causal effect on the physical world.'' | ||