29 April 2011

ON UNFREE persons

A human but a dogmatic mind
1) A person x is not able to think than in one way.

2) Free act requires possibilities to do otherwise.

3) However, a person x has not a possibility to think than in this one particular way. (Maybe x is brainwashed or a mind of x is political.)


4) Therefore, x is not free, and x is not a freethinker (from 1, 2 and 3)

(free Mr. Gaddafi´s mind!)

03 April 2011

A Personal Problem

A word "a face" and the face
A person x grasps a meaning of the concept "a face", and grasping it causes an image of a face in the consciousness of x.

But how is that causality possible in the Universe? Further, how does the connection of grasping and a mental image connect with a person's physical body or its central neural system?


I have not been understanding that.



(René Magritte, "The Rape", 1934)