tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post5471306864103818951..comments2024-01-16T09:31:45.073-04:00Comments on Anderson Brown's Philosophy Blog: Hyper-chauvinistic type-to-type reductive materialismAnderson Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18358008464457746997noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736365491401043672.post-61112367067545763732011-08-17T05:00:40.058-04:002011-08-17T05:00:40.058-04:00Another way of arriving at the same salutary concl...Another way of arriving at the same salutary conclusion would be to ask what sort of theory of Language gives rise to a distinction between intentional and phenomenal states. Surely this must be an i-language, intensionally defined and an ideal language in that idiolectal errors can be neglected as noise.<br />But, is it feasible for a species that evolved by natural selection to have an i-language? Indeed, does it make sense to speak of consciousness as being embodied in particular meat-suits as opposed to something happening across meat-suits and relatively independent of changes in the membership of the class of meat-suits thus engaged?<br />Take something like reported morbidity- Economists, especially Development Economists, think of it as a function of Income, Education, degree of Social stratification etc with the low-status landless laborer in caste-ridden rural Bihar reporting lower morbidity than the better off in the Cities.<br /><br />Intentionality evolves against a fitness landscape optimizing for Social signalling. Intensionality, as a concept, evolved for certain sorts or Research Programs which- before the crisis in A.I- seemed plausible and the kind of things the RAND Corp. and MIT and so on should be doing.<br /><br />That said, this sounds a very interesting subject and, perhaps, a little more background re. recent developments in the current literature could be given to clarify points raised in the first two paragraphs of this post for the benefit of ordinary readers.windwheelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18099651877551933295noreply@blogger.com