My take on why indeed the study of consciousness may not be as simple - Page 31

yy2bggggs · Yesterday, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by westprog

Think logically - how do we define something? It has to be in terms of something else. So either we define everything in a circle - so that nothing is defined to be anything in particular - or we have to have something irreducible that cannot, in principle, be defined.

Or, things boil down eventually to reference to other things which may very well be reducible.

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yy2bggggs Muse Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 960	Originally Posted by westprog Think logically - how do we define something? It has to be in terms of something else. So either we define everything in a circle - so that nothing is defined to be anything in particular - or we have to have something irreducible that cannot, in principle, be defined. Or, things boil down eventually to reference to other things which may very well be reducible.
yy2bggggs Muse Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 960