Talk:Type physicalism

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[edit] Clean up and expansion

Hi all. I just made some changes to the article. It needs a lot of work, though. Hopefully people can work on it. There are plenty of resources out there online to help keep it on track (like the SEP and the IEP entries). - Jaymay 07:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It was a typo

I rushed through a little carelessly and typed in five tokens. Sorry to mislead. Thanks for spotting the error. --Lacatosias 09:17, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


I think the reply to the final criticism is worded a little vaguely. I've read it several times through but I really don't understand what Smart's reply is supposed to say. I think it'd help if someone who knew the subject very well could reword it.

[edit] Fish

"pain is identical to C-fiber firings" universally and at all times is highly implausible

Also known as "It's ok: fish don't feel pain". Or, perhaps "what the fish feels isn't pain".

Not at all. What it means is simply that the same exact sensation of pain could be realized by, say, Q-fiber firings instead of C-fiber firings in the salmon, by J-fibre firings in the octopus and by some configuration of silicon in a hypothetical silicon-based life form (computer with qualia). --Lacatosias 13:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


How ironic that the originator of Type Theory was named "Boring."