In message <004f01be5b9f$4b69b8a0$aba6fea9@dave_mason.merak.com>, David
McFadzean <dmcfadzean@earthlink.net> writes
Sorry, I don't go for "emergent materialism". As far as I
know, it talks about self-awareness in terms of feedback
and recursion, but fails to account for simple awareness.
There is not, and I say cannot be, a materialist explanation
of that, so if a materialist believes in it, they're being
inconsistent.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
>Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 1:58 PM
>
>>...a bit sharper. I'd say, you cannot simultaneously be a
>>materialist, and a realist about consciousness, because
>>consciousness is not a material thing.
>
>I'll accept that. So can an "emergent materialist" operate as
>a social animal with one worldview?
>What exactly constitutes a single worldview? Are two models
>that happen to be non-inconsistent one or two worldviews?
I don't think there's a definitive answer to that, but we were talking about inconsistent views, weren't we?
>The reason I ask is I was in a presentation today that was
Semantics.
>talking about Belbin's model of roles in an organizational
>team (shaper, chairman, innovator, worker, finisher, etc)
>and this was related to the Myers-Briggs personality types.
>Two distinctly different models of human personalities, but
>not inconsistent. One worldview or two?
-- Robin