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How can physicalists account for semantics/meanings? Consider the sentence, "The snow is white." Strictly speaking, the meaning of the sentence is not identical to the sentence or the atoms, pixels or sounds that make it up. There are no physical brain states that are identical to the meaning of the sentence either. In fact, we cannot even account for the meaning of the sentence by appealing to any of the notions in modern physics. Not even a "theory of everything" would help here.

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16498988

>brain wires go weeeeee

>> No.16499110

wrong board

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>>16498966

>MILKY MILKY WARM AND TASTY!

>MOMMY! MILKY! PLEASE BE HASTY!

>REFRESHING DRINK FROM MOMMY'S UDDERS!

>I WANT MOMMY'S AND NO OTHER'S!

>GIVE IT! GIVE IT! GIVE IT NOW!

>GIVE ME MILKY, LAZY SOW!

>UNTIL YOU DO I'LL SCREAM I'LL SHOUT!

>I'LL CRY I'LL WHINE AND STOMP ABOUT!

>UNTIL MY BELLY IS FULL AND HAPPY!

>I REFUSE TO TAKE NAPPY!

>> No.16499147

>>16498966
>>16499144
Coffee is good for you

>> No.16499150

>>16498966
that's a good point, not a physicalist tho so can't respond