Yep, very important.

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:31 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]>
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> HI Brent,
>
>   I don’t think you are wrong in your sense that eliminative materialists
> would embrace that. The primary thing about them is that they believe that
> the language of “physical causation” will be the ultimate
> ontological/scientific language. The ToK argues that if you look at science
> what you see is a language of behaviors. Mechanistic materialism is only
> one way of describing behavioral patterns.
>
>
>
>   I will say it is confusing in that I think people really are arguing
> different things with a good overall map. Consider Patricia Churchland was
> one of the well-known eliminative materialists. I was at a conference and
> we happened to have lunch and I showed her the ToK and she was “on board
> with that”.  My thinking right now is I need to help folks see why
> “behavior” is the foundational frame for science instead of mechanistic
> materialism and show why that makes a whole lot of difference in how we
> think about the world from a scientific perspective.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your contributions.
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
>
>
> *From:* tree of knowledge system discussion <
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> *Subject:* Re: Blog on Behaviorism v Reductive Physicalism
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>
>
> Interesting Piece.
>
> Being mostly only ever interested in qualia, I’ve always only thought of “eliminative
> materialism”
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Eliminative-5Fmaterialism&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=44T7ydXehQPIto_awJO-HTVoexhznghxe0YJBYEf2tw&s=sHerFmByeLTgrKfvayWwKtipPdwbvNoyxS5lPyYM3xI&e=> as
> only someone like Dennett who states: “We don’t have qualia it just seems
> like we do”.  But all this stuff continues to open whole new worlds of
> understanding.
>
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> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 10:33 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <
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> Hi List,
>
>   I put up a blog today on Tree of Knowledge’s behaviorist ontology versus
> a reductive physicalism.
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.psychologytoday.com_us_blog_theory-2Dknowledge_201911_scientifically-2Dsay-2Dyes-2Dbehavior-2Dno-2Dphysicalism&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=uhqHVMhsTx927fdZr4-0-gavVbhS903cQBo0OWHhqqo&s=2vIn3ALNLKIgdDTltikWlW7neBHuH1pduw3cqjhgM3Q&e=
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.psychologytoday.com_us_blog_theory-2Dknowledge_201911_scientifically-2Dsay-2Dyes-2Dbehavior-2Dno-2Dphysicalism&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=44T7ydXehQPIto_awJO-HTVoexhznghxe0YJBYEf2tw&s=8cERwq-lAAq8tHzVwS1eZa1XcfVUmmNI53TQ8DMQspc&e=>
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>
> Best,
>
> Gregg
>
>
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