Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> > Your sense of you fingers on the cup handle _is_ a movement of
> > neurotransmitters.
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> Yeah, but is that the end of the line? Have you reached some sort of
> foundation by saying this, or is it just a tautology?
Both and neither. It's a tautology, but not _just_ a tautology. The spontaneous psychology/neuroscience people respond from is that of a homonunculus sitting in the brain; it is incredibly difficult to get rid of that response, and recognizing the identity of neural events and thought/feeling/sense/etc is a first step. It's really possible that the brain can't understand itself, and we will never have a complete understanding of consciousness. But forward movement does require getting rid of both the homonunculus and the cartesian 'soul.'
Carrol