What are you? EvC poll

This is a good candidate for an OP. You should start on thread on this question.First thing that enters my head is what about moving pictures. You go and see a series of stills flashed on a screen and perceive motion. This is just an example. It is established that atoms are mostly space so what is solidity?So what do you mean by experience? Sensory perception? Memory?lfen

That's a good quote but I like this one even better: As to vacuous and ignorant I think your statement is a revealing projection on your part but tells us nothing about Feynman.lfenedited due to misclicking before finishedThis message has been edited by lfen, 05-04-2006 08:02 PM

That is ususally the position I am working on. Though I am also trying to figure out if there are aspects to matter/energy that with sufficient complexity gives rise to consciousness as an emergent phenomena. That is to say does energy have some kind of inner qualities that an organism with a nervous system can access as qualia?lfen

Empty handed I entered the world.
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going -
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.Kozan Ichikyo, Death Poem
1583-1660

I'm a monist.I read some of Rob's essay and I'm pretty sure he is a dualist. He is certainly dead set against monism that much was clear.lfen