@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {McGinn,Colin}, subject = {Epiphenomenalism}, note = {I 214 Epiphenomenalism/consciousness: Now, a living thing with the ability to think cannot help also thinking other things than were originally intended. Intelligence expands and extends to areas where it will bring us no benefit. >Consciousness. McGinnVsEpiphenomenalism we should find the theory of the by-product much more surprising than we do and also more enigmatic. It’s really amazing and just quite unforeseeable that reason proves to be able to do the things that it is actually capable of. ((s) Reason makes our lives so complicated) ... that it is a mystery why the genes have not installed a limitation. I 216 By-product/Epiphenomenon/McGinn: in order to take the relevant theory seriously we would have to be able to see a conceptual or theoretical continuity between the problems of understanding that affect the lives of flying or swimming creatures or living beings in underground passages, and the problems of our philosophy. McGinnVsEpiphenomenalism: merely gesturing as long as it is not shown why it should that human reason might extend also in this direction.}, note = { McGinn I Colin McGinn Problems in Philosophy. The Limits of Inquiry, Cambridge/MA 1993 German Edition: Die Grenzen vernünftigen Fragens Stuttgart 1996 McGinn II C. McGinn The Mysteriouy Flame. Conscious Minds in a Material World, New York 1999 German Edition: Wie kommt der Geist in die Materie? München 2001 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=216837} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=216837} }