(June 1, 2012 at 7:03 pm)StatCrux Wrote:(June 1, 2012 at 6:52 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I'm not really following some of the things being said in this thread.
I'll probably regret asking this question...why can't it be said that thoughts are physical?
It can, that's an option, in fact it's more consistent with materialism. the problem is that it destroys freewill, we basically become automatons, Daniel Dennet agrees, saying freewill is illusory.
Oh, I don't think I have any problems with that then. If freewill is an illusion, so be it.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
