You guys do realize that the vast, vast majority of folks aren't really any sort of ist at all...right?
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Sodom
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 1:32 PM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: materialism and other worldviews
I'd say, you cannot simultaneously be a
materialist, and a realist about consciousness, because
consciousness is not a material thing.
--
Robin
My .02 says: The problem is not that consciousness as a material thing is beyond understanding in principle. As a realist, understanding that the complexity of consciousness in the material sense is beyond our skills is better. They can co-exist if you take this cheap way out. Consciousness is a material thing that our perception cannot distinguish as such, like music. Abstract in the extreme of which all parts are basic physics as is our response. I see why we wrestle with this problem. There needs to be a term that describes the Materialist who realizes that not all is within grasp.
Bill Roh