Well, Robert, as it happens the RMAR rant for which I have already apologized, never made it to the list. In the first place I had the devil's own time sending it out of my machine, and by the time I managed to send it to the list, it had magically tripled itself in length, so the List Wouldnt Have It.
So I have an apology in HAND which I plan to cash in on in the next 48 hours.
Meanwhile, everybody is an identity theorist with respect to mind. The question is WHAT they identify it with. As a BrainStateMaterialist, YOU identify it with something nobody knows ANYTHING about ... the states of the brain. I am a Higher-Order-Behavior-Pattern materialist. Little as I know about the brain, I know quite a lot about the meta- patterns of behavior of both myself and others, and I would rather, when I speak, refer to something I know something about, rather than to something I know nothing about.
That apparently makes me a radical of some sort. It's not easy being green.
[sigh]
NIck
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Holmes
To: nickthompson at earthlink.net;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 6/18/2007 5:34:29 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Apologies for last post...
OK - I'll bite. What does a RMAR think? I ask, because your last question to me at Wedtech ("So Robert, ARE you a materialist?") sent me scurrying to my reference books from which I'm only just emerging and - apparently - I'm a glutton for punishment.
And in answer to your question, yes I am; in addition I'm a fully paid-up subscriber to the identity theory of mind.
R
On 6/17/07, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
.... which was too long, too pompous, and too sloppy. I labored at it for hours, and then, in the end, totally lost patience and sent it unproof-read. If anybody is interested in what a REALIST MATERIALIST ANTI REDUCTIONIST thinks about anything -- dubious proposition--, email me and I will send you a cleaned up version. I think there was SOME good stuff in there, but nobody should have to labor so hard to get it out.
thanks for your patience,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ( nick at redfish.com)
Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ( nthompson at clarku.edu)
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