[MD] TiTs and the Illusion of SOM

David Thomas combinedefforts at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 23 05:07:14 PDT 2010


On 8/23/10 1:25 AM, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

>> But SOM is also Pirsig's version of the long standing mind/body dualism
>> debate wherein mental substance and physical substance are two irreducible
>> forms of "stuff" which mysteriously interact but are not dependant on each
>> other. Pirsig is ultimately always talking about how each of us has and
>> makes sense of our individual experience. It is pure phenomenology.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hey!  I made that point recently.  didya notice Krimel?  About the
> congruence between dmb's interpertation of the Moq and phenomenology - the
> most radical of the empiricists?
> 
> Tha's ok.  Nobody pays much attention to my words, and I don't blame them a
> bit.

And then another hilarious congruence. David Chalmers, who dmb rejects prior
to reading, argues the phenomena is integral to the "hard problem" of
conscious experience.

DMB





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