Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

Over the last year I have tried to take the blog in to a more focussed direction and try to concentrate in more depth on certain issues. For example personality theory and my latest piece was focussed on dualism and mental causation. When I start out on a piece I find a really strong tangent of thought...

The 'Hard Problem' and Self Hood

The 'Hard Problem' and Self Hood

This is a reply to a comment on the article 'Self requisite for causation'. This is a sidetrack from the essay but it is an interesting set of musings nonetheless. I am kind of convinced that there is, or has been, no a selves ever on the Earth. For animals I think all vertebrates have phenomenal,...

Self Requisite For Causation? Part VI

Self Requisite For Causation? Part VI

Part 1 Here The Conditions For Self hood If we take the fear response we investigated in part II for example, we analysed this and discovered we did not control the process. We might see similar behaviour to our fear response in dogs, perhaps in response to fireworks or a gun shot. At this point we...

Self Requisite For Causation? Part V

Self Requisite For Causation? Part V

Part 1 Here Dualism: A Religious Doctrine Having established the absurd nature of holding to the Cartesian picture, we need to draw a few more comparisons. Our next stage is to illustrate that we cannot hold on to a dualism of body and mind and reject theism at the same time. Religion and Cartesian dualism...