Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 214
Epiphenomenalism/consciousness: Now, a living thing with the ability to think cannot help also thinking other things than were originally intended.
Intelligence expands and extends to areas where it will bring us no benefit.
>Consciousness.
McGinnVsEpiphenomenalism we should find the theory of the by-product much more surprising than we do and also more enigmatic.
It’s really amazing and just quite unforeseeable that reason proves to be able to do the things that it is actually capable of.
((s) Reason makes our lives so complicated) ... that it is a mystery why the genes have not installed a limitation.
I 216
By-product/Epiphenomenon/McGinn: in order to take the relevant theory seriously we would have to be able to see a conceptual or theoretical continuity between the problems of understanding that affect the lives of flying or swimming creatures or living beings in underground passages, and the problems of our philosophy.
McGinnVsEpiphenomenalism: merely gesturing as long as it is not shown why it should that human reason might extend also in this direction.

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