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    1. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 3 Oct 2018
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      And yet things like God, transubstantiation, souls, the mind, goodness inherent in actions, purpose, a thing having a nature, telos, are all rejected in part on reductionist grounds.

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    2. Curl Of Gradient‏ @CurlOfGradient 3 Oct 2018
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      Not sure how you can claim the mind is rejected by reductionism; that seems like claiming computer programs don’t exist because it’s all just circuits. Purposes/telos only make sense in reference to a given mind; the purpose of a hammer is to pound nails, etc.

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    3. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 3 Oct 2018
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      "The mind is nothing but the brain, it's not a real thing on its own, just a useful abstraction we use to talk about the real material thing which is the brain"

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    4. Curl Of Gradient‏ @CurlOfGradient 3 Oct 2018
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      If you are trying to change someone’s thoughts through brain surgery, this is the useful viewpoint to take. For most other purposes, treating the mind as an object in and of itself is the useful viewpoint. Regardless, the mind arises entirely from atoms.

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    5. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 3 Oct 2018
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      A mind that lives on the substrate of organic molecules can be the same mind as one that lives on a substrate of silicon or a mind that lives in a universe with different physics. The atoms are not an essential property of the mind.

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    6. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 3 Oct 2018
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      Just as how the chairness of a chair has nothing to do with the specific particular materials that chair is made of, only general requirements for the materials.

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    7. Curl Of Gradient‏ @CurlOfGradient 3 Oct 2018
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      And yet, the atoms of the chair come together to be a chair, merely by following their own laws. Multiple systems can give rise to the same mind; this does not imply that those systems are doing anything than following their usual laws.

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    8. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 3 Oct 2018
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      The chairness is not in the atoms, but in the form and function of the thing that they compose, and the reality of its form and function cannot be reduced to the atoms. Knowing only about the atoms doesn't let you point to chairs or talk a out how to use them.

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    9. Curl Of Gradient‏ @CurlOfGradient 3 Oct 2018
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      The chairness of the collection of atoms exists in the mind of the person looking at it. An alien with no limbs would have no concept of chairness and would never see one the way we do.

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    10. Validation Of Priors‏ @ValidOfPriors 8 Oct 2018
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      A human can have a concept of a perch though they have no talons to grip it, or a thermal though they have no wings to ride it.

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      Curl Of Gradient‏ @CurlOfGradient 8 Oct 2018
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      Yes, and the alien would likely soon come to understand chairs after watching humans use them a few times.

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        2. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 9 Oct 2018
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          And the important thing to note here is that it is through the chair's objective, real-world, not embedded in the mind, functional relationship with humans that gives chairness its meaning, not some fact about the underlying collection of atoms or...

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        3. Referent Of Self‏ @ReferentOfSelf 9 Oct 2018
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          ... merely some facts about the psychology of humans

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        2. Validation Of Priors‏ @ValidOfPriors 8 Oct 2018
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          Right, so while the concept of "chairness" may exist in a mind, it is transferable to another mind in the form of sub-concepts at a lower level of abstraction...

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        3. Curl Of Gradient‏ @CurlOfGradient 8 Oct 2018
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          Yes. I am merely claiming that “chairness” does not exist in the chair.

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