tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post8957166482084981292..comments2024-03-30T00:09:27.602+13:00Comments on Not PC: Quote of the Day: The fallacy of Cartesian DualismPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-82211919654516676852016-01-15T10:47:13.165+13:002016-01-15T10:47:13.165+13:00Well that is a pretty low brow definition of "...Well that is a pretty low brow definition of "thing". What exactly is electricity or gravity. (hint: it is not a side effect of "matter" Moreover, what role does electricity as a property (a again, a physical property, of thought.<br /><br />But beyond that, he is putting words in Descartes mouth. It is fairly obvious that he was talking about "phenomena". In an event this was more rigourly discussed by the German Idealist (and the English Pragmatists) than this rather insipid "analysis by someone whose knowledge of philosophy (and, evidently the physical sciences too) is rather shallow given that he has a PhD in it (but from Columbia, so that figures). He no doubt thinks that Rand was a "Philosopher" too. This is particularly hilarious: "the operation of consciousness is a process of that entity". I do not know which to guffaw at more loudly, the construction "operation of consciousness" or the notion that that fuzzy self contradictory "idea" is a "process of that entity". Too funny. He should ask Columbia for his money back.<br /><br />Fairly typical of the physicalist, materialist horse blinders and naivete of Libertarians.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com