Names and faces to bikes

[cite]You write that as if it is a fact...? :)

Not sure why it appears as fact to you ? I think facts are the preserve of the inerrant religious/supernatural thinkers, it is simply my opinion, it is something I believe to be true.

[cite]Some philosophers like Daniel Dennett argue that the concept of mental states like thoughts and emotions do not really exist. It's called eliminative materialism.

I love Dennett, great bloke :)

Epiphenomenalism does not contradict the idea that thoughts and emotions do not really exist - of course for this to meaningful we would have to define 'exist'.

I am a materialist (the philosophical understanding of the word that is !! - I don't collect ipods ! :) )

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I suspect you might of heard of it though since you referred to epiphenomenalism.

Indeed I have !