Re: The Identity Theory of Mind

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:15:34 GMT

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:54:02 -0500, Paul Bramscher
<brams006_nospam@tc.umn.edu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>JPL Verhey wrote:

[. . .]

>> Yes, conscious experience is quite a rich landscape. And ever changing.
>
>To me, the big mystery is how you go from symbols (syntax) to semantics.

[. . .]

You don't get from symbols to semantics. Physically and mechanically
you get from semantics to symbols.

That's the common mistake made by all variants of positivism. They
just imagine they have all these symbols, objects, and things out
there and just need to relate them all somehow. But the causation is
the other way around. You start with the semantics of differences
between differences and wind up with the symbols, objects, and things
out there and in here according to various properties that result.

Regards - Lester

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