Re: death of the mind.

From: Allan C Cybulskie (allan.c.cybulskie_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 07:39:43 -0400

"David Longley" <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:gTLz7tA4VLEBFwLM@longley.demon.co.uk...
> In article <joTPc.26197$Vm1.497463@news20.bellglobal.com>, Allan C
> Cybulskie <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> writes
> >
> >"David Longley" <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:s1PQy4AycNCBFw4v@longley.demon.co.uk...
> >> In article <JuYNc.324$U_3.67490@news20.bellglobal.com>, Allan C
> >> Cybulskie <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> writes
> >> >And, needless to say, I fail to see the use of your alternative.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> We know!
> >>
> >> Have you entertained the possibility that such a statement might
> >> motivate other folk to undertake a radical/critical self-reappraisal?
> >
> >Only if the people positing the alternative can provide a reason for me
to
> >consider it, or why it might be useful. Which you have yet to do.
> >
> >
> No, you don't understand. It isn't a matter of "positing" anything.

If you aren't positing that behaviourism is the best explanation of mind,
why in the world are you arguing with people who claim that it isn't?

> What
> you're reporting to this newsgroup is no more than the fact that *you*
> "fail to see the use of" what you have been told. You're just making a
> public statement of your ignorance (something you've been doing from the
> outset).

No, actually. What I'm saying is that so far my folk psychologist and
philosophy of mind ideas have been successful enough that I see no reason to
abandon them in favour of your radical behaviourism unless you can show --
which you have not -- why your view actually works better.

>
> Nobody is obliged to educate you, but you should expect people to point
> out *that* you're ignorant.

Not unless they can prove it. Which you have not.

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