[ExI] Can philosophers produce scientific knowledge?

[Brent Allsop]

Oh, sorry, forgot the link to Steven Lehars latest and greatest video:

http://slehar.com/wwwRel/HarmonicGestalt.mp4



On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:54 PM Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Stathis,
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> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 5:03 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> Functionalism is a logical position, that IF the correct substitution
>> could be made THEN redness would be preserved.
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> Despite the problems with this you continually ignore, even IF some
> correct substitution could be made, you also seem to always insist that
> everyone must accept that this IF condition will be true.  This is
> clearly simply a prediction about nature, which
> experimentation could clearly falsify, the counter prediction being that
> nobody will every be able to find any kind of substrate independent
> function which could be substituted for an elemental redness substrate out
> of which consciousness is composed and depends on.
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> And in response to this you always seem to reply that functionally it must
> "logically" be possible, but this "logical" claim is also dependent on
> what Steven Lehar refers to as the current "Neuron Doctrine" which assumes
> neurons are:
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> "quasi-independent computational elements that communicate by electrical
> signals propagated down axons and collaterals and transmitted to other
> neurons through chemical synapses."
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> this is at 1:37 in where he also points out:
> *"This Paradigm is Wrong!"*
> and then he points out why.
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