SpaceweaverFri, Jan 25, 2008 To wildcat and obvious: Philosophically speaking, the proposition that Minds/Worlds are causally closed, and the proposition that Minds/Worlds do interact, are not contradictory. Actually, at least for Minds it is quite plausibly the case. Intuitively it may seem that wildcat's response above was caused by obvious' comment, and my comment is caused by both above comments. But, a different description of wildcat's or obvious' or my mind may be given entirely in terms of causally closed thought-sense processes.
To wildcat and obvious: Philosophically speaking, the proposition that Minds/Worlds are causally closed, and the proposition that Minds/Worlds do interact, are not contradictory. Actually, at least for Minds it is quite plausibly the case. Intuitively it may seem that wildcat's response above was caused by obvious' comment, and my comment is caused by both above comments. But, a different description of wildcat's or obvious' or my mind may be given entirely in terms of causally closed thought-sense processes.