[MD] G. Strawson vs. Pirsig Redux

[Michael R. Brown]

This completely denies, though, anything invisible or transcendent.

Conscious experience as all? But then there's nothing to be on the 
cutting edge.

We have to have some kind of unknown, alogos, darkness - at the least, 
to illumine. There has to be an undifferentiated aesthetic continuum 
before there is consciousness.

(Also, Ayn Rand wasn't off the beam when she criticized consciousness 
without an object.)


MRB

On 10/23/2016 2:53 PM, Craig Erb wrote:
> I recently attended a philosophy paper given by Galen Strawson at the U. of California, Berkeley (sponsored by the Rhetoric Dept.!)  He is the one who gave the notoriously bad review to LILA. [http://www.moq.org/forum/Strawson/strawson.html]
> He presented a position which he labelled "physicalist panpsychism".  Its main tenets are:
> 1) the whole of concrete reality is mind or consciousness (= conscious experience)
> 2) the existence of a subject of experience is nothing ontologically over and above the existence of experience
> 3) everything that concretely exists is physical
> 4) all physical phenomenon are forms of energy
> 5) the intrinsic nature of energy is experience
> 6) everything that concretely exists is experience
> 7) the only thing that is known for certain to exist is experience
> 8) physics in itself neither can nor does make any claims whatever about the intrinsic non-structural nature of concrete reality
> In the Question-and-Answer, I asked Strawson to compare his view to Pirsig's.  He said they were close.  What say you?
> Craig
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