Vital Materialism

[Philip Thrift]

On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 2:12:01 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Materialism is like Vitalism. It will be abandoned, soon or later, as a lasting superstition, I think.

Bruno 

"Vital Materialism" is the new thing now. :)

e.g. https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter

@philipthrift 

[Bruno Marchal]

On 30 May 2019, at 10:01, Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 2:12:01 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Materialism is like Vitalism. It will be abandoned, soon or later, as a lasting superstition, I think.

Bruno 

"Vital Materialism" is the new thing now. :)

You mean the new fashion in town? That is by itself a reason to be skeptical. A feeling ...

e.g. https://www.dukeupress.edu/vibrant-matter

… confirmed after a quick reading, although what she says is coherent with non-computationalism, but unfortunately almost anything is coherent when assuming non-computationalism, even transforming water in wine, without prestidigitation.

I have sympathy for her critics of the binary division between human and non-human, though, but it is not by quasi identifying mind and matter that such idea can survive the long run. 

Bruno

@philipthrift 

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