Talk:Mind and Consciousness Debate Guide

From PhiloWiki

"...the majority of philosophers of the mind today, take this position (physicalism or materialism)".

As an untutored philosopher I have to start from a simplistic position:

This majority view in modern philosophy is strange in the light of cosmological discoveries. Ordinary matter makes up only five percent of the universe, and invisible (dark) "matter" adds only another 21 per cent to the missing part. So, most of our knowledge of existence is still missing and is simply flagged with the label "dark energy".

Also, matter came out of non-matter quite a bit after existence itself got spewed out of "nothingness" (out of the mind of God?).

Could it be that most philosophers are still stuck in the pre-Copernican age with a cripplingly matter-centred worldview?

Janos 19:55, 17 December 2006 (CST)