(February 2, 2016 at 3:35 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: And actually, I'm starting to think that you are not being honest in this discussion. It was just a few pages back that you described yourself as a student of Swedenborg; a man who claimed to have regularly visited heaven and spoken with angelGenerally, I confine my advocacy of certain theological positions to those supported by natural revelation. This means I prefer to defend the existence of the god of classic monotheism. When I talk about the Christian Godhead, I do so by showing how it and the "God of the Philosophers" are theologically reconciled by neo-Scholasticism.
Discussions about angels, demons, and spirits by Swedenborg fall under the category of special revelation so I don't bring it up much. However, since you asked, in Swedenborg's experiences, the various supernatural entities he encountered had bodies although of more rarified matter, a kind wholly unknown to us.
As for the current discussion, the notion of multiple realizability doesn't really directly relate to theism. It is one of the few positions that I share with the majority of contemporary professional analytic philosophers, even though many of which do not have Noble prize awards.
