(March 20, 2015 at 12:55 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Then you are wrong about what I actually believe. I think human beings are hypostatic unions of the material and the ideal, in the same sense that all living things are. This union results in things having a specific nature, or soul. The difference between my position and that of a physical reductionist is that I do not think the motions of sensible bodies provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for sentience.
A dualist huh. If you have two different things, material and ideal, how do they interact with each other. There has to be some mediator that is both part material and part ideal. If there is a mediator that is both material and ideal, then the material and ideal are not two different things since one object can have both. They are just different attributes of the same thing.