Re-Introducing The Concept of Mind
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[1] Imagine somebody whose enthusiasm for metaphysical musings is so matched by ineptitude that when his bank informs him that his account is overdrawn, he manages to convince himself that the modern banking system had created a new kind of Cosmic Substance: anti-cash, convertible into minus-pounds-sterling, nego-dollars, vac-euros, and so forth. Being a staunch ‘realist’ about all things, he decides that his bankers have just informed him that they are holding, somewhere within their walls, in a container with his name on it, a particular quantity of anti-cash. It’s like matter and anti-matter, he thinks, and he supposes that the annihilation that happens when his overdraft of -£200.43 meets his deposit of £300.46 is–shazam!–the explosive generation of £100.03 of ordinary cash (minus a small quantity extracted by the bank) plus, perhaps, a few stray photons or quarks or gravity waves. He wonders: What kind of containers does the bank use to hold the anticash till the regular cash arrives? How are they insulated? Can you store cash and anticash in the same box and somehow prevent them from getting in contact? Might there be zombanks that only seemed to store cash and anti-cash? How could we tell? This is a hard problem indeed!
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