THE (NONEXISTENT) EFFECTS OF FEELING ARE A FAR BIGGER PROBLEM THAN THE UNKNOWN CAUSES OF FEELING

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

Whereas it is merely mysterious how the brain causes feeling (but there is no doubt that it does), the real explanatory puzzle is why the brain causes feeling, since there is no room for feeling to have any causal power of its own (even though it feels as if it does), except on pain of telekinetic dualism.

Link:

http://philpapers.org/post/1026

Updated:

10/18/2010, 05:30

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Tags:

stevan harnad free will mind-body.problem feeling-function.problem causality feeling explanatory.gap explanation functing functionalism oa.philosophy oa.humanities

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 13:23

Date published:

05/21/2009, 19:42