<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>If my fervent belief that spreadsheets are not round and magnetic commits me to property dualism, then I fully embrace my hitherto undiscovered, yet apparently inescapable, dogma.</div><div><br></div><div>I welcome to my new camp all true believers in the proposition that apples are not made of red.</div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Gordon Swobe <gts_2000@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, February 27, 2010
6:31:40 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Is the brain a digital computer?<br></font><br>
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Christopher Luebcke <<a ymailto="mailto:cluebcke@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cluebcke@yahoo.com">cluebcke@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Not dualism in the sense of some ineffable, non-interactive<br>> properties. But in the sense that certain properties pertain<br>> to information, or motion, or activity, but not necessarily<br>> to matter.<br><br>If you hold that matter can have both physical and non-physical properties, and if you consider mental states (thoughts, beliefs, desires, and so on) as non-physical properties of matter, then you may consider yourself a property dualist.<br><br>Property dualism appeared as a reasonable reaction to Cartesian substance dualism, but it still leaves us with a mysterious non-physical mind that materialist/physicalists like me find unsatisfactory.<br><br>I don't consider myself a big fan of "isms" but it does sometimes help to know where one
stands.<br><br>-gts<br><br><br><br><br> <br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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