I’ll sell you some epiphenomenal garlic for $10.
Sold, but I’m only carrying epiphenomenal cash on me. What exchange rate will you accept?
Hold on, let me check the financial bridging laws to find out how much epiphenomenal cash is required to add up to ten real dollars.
(Actually, it occurs to me that most modern money is epiphenomenal anyway—you can identify the belief in money, but not the money itself.)
Money is information, a point I can’t but bring up often.
For those who don’t already know, the analogy to money is in fact used by Dennett (starting around 45 min).
I didn’t. Nice.
So you haven’t read his Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness?
I’ll sell you some epiphenomenal garlic for $10.
Sold, but I’m only carrying epiphenomenal cash on me. What exchange rate will you accept?
Hold on, let me check the financial bridging laws to find out how much epiphenomenal cash is required to add up to ten real dollars.
(Actually, it occurs to me that most modern money is epiphenomenal anyway—you can identify the belief in money, but not the money itself.)
Money is information, a point I can’t but bring up often.
For those who don’t already know, the analogy to money is in fact used by Dennett (starting around 45 min).
I didn’t. Nice.
So you haven’t read his Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness?