Personal Heroes Series: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
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Hello Shay,
Great quote from Allan Poe! Thank you for your answer. If I am right with ‘mental sameness =/ physical sameness’ you mean ‘mental sameness does not implicate phys. sameness’. Anyway that doesn’t contradict the supervenience thesis, cause it says that ‘mental DIFFERENCE implicates phys. difference’.
On the other side, I totally agree when you say ‘The reason we should reject it is due to the underdtanding that each and every single brain is unique’. If two brains (phys. states) can’t have the same state, how can we suppose something like the supervenience thesis?
See you.
Didn’t mean to sound as if I disagree with supervenience, anyway… Thanks for reading