RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
August 31, 2016 at 8:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 8:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm afraid you might be equivocating over the term altered state. That there is a nueral correlate does not imply or demonstrate that you were in an altered state during any of those experiences, whatever they were (and whatever they weren't). Our brains do this sort of shit all the time. It's not a bug, it's a feature, lol. I;m not in an altered state when I misremember having had a convo with the wife and only open my mouth to actually -speak- halfway through it (I can see her smirking now). I'm not in an altered state when something that isn;t in my closet goes bump, or when I see the great grey shape that makes men shiver sneak back behind the barn. That's standard operating procedure.
You have anecdotes about anamolous experiences (more accurately memories thereof)....but without some sort of equipment producing corroborating data, I can dismiss the notion that they were altered states as a poor inference with no evidence to back it.
You have anecdotes about anamolous experiences (more accurately memories thereof)....but without some sort of equipment producing corroborating data, I can dismiss the notion that they were altered states as a poor inference with no evidence to back it.
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