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Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
(January 19, 2016 at 4:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(January 18, 2016 at 1:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Are you saying that psychological facts don't count? (Mary's Room, Jackson).
The Mary's room' thought experiment doesn't really disprove physicalism though...Mary was -intentionally- deprived of the PHYSICAL experience of seeing color!
Not exactly. Mary was deprived of the physical data set necessary to experience color. The thought experiment focuses on whether any kind of monist reduction is possible. It takes no particular stand with respect to supervenience.
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RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge - by Neo-Scholastic - January 28, 2016 at 12:40 pm

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