Names and faces to bikes

leeww [quote][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.[/quote]

Just appeared to me to be like you were :)

Hmm... I don't think I agree with you about facts being the preserve of religious/supernatural thinkers. I need to think about it a bit more to argue it, and I don't know if I can really be bothered :P

[quote][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 :)[/quote]

Yeah, I found his work quite interesting. I studied philosophy of mind in my Philosophy A-level, and he briefly came up. I read a bit more about his ideas and I quite like them. Probably because I'm primarily a science student.

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 ! :) )

Me too. Although I do have two iPods! In my philosophy class I was pretty much the only materialist student, the rest were still convinced that there was something like an immaterial soul, but they didn't have any reason for it. Just the "inkling" inside.

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

Indeed I have ![/quote]

Ahhh it's to late in the evening to be thinking about philosophy after a long day at work!

I vote for more:

BEER

BIKES

I'm going to get a beer.