RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 18, 2016 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2016 at 12:14 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 18, 2016 at 3:13 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:The thought problem raises the question as to whether there are facts about which someone can have knowledge that cannot be reduced to purely physical processes. Mary learns something. Of what does she learn? How does an independent observer confirm what she has learned?(January 18, 2016 at 1:37 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Are you saying that psychological facts don't count? (Mary's Room, Jackson).
The switches in the brain, those are facts. The thoughts in the brain, those are abstractions.
I trust you know the difference.