RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
September 14, 2015 at 8:17 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 8:20 pm by bennyboy.)
(September 14, 2015 at 3:08 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Moreover, you're assuming that a full explanation of mind won't show how matter is essential to mind. That's an argument from ignoranceAren't you also now assuming that there's a theoretical state in which a full explanation of mind can or will be known? Are you assuming that science, which has demonstrated very little facility in addressing philosophical issues of cosmogony or psychogony, just hasn't got there "yet"?
It seems to me that mind is a special case, and that the belief that it can or will be fully explained is at this point little more than a statement of faith.