RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
September 1, 2016 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 9:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2016 at 2:05 am)Panatheist Wrote: The attribution of the experience to an altered state? I specifically used the term altered state to describe very unusual perceptual phenomena and said that anything I am experiencing subjectively including such perceptual phenomena must have a physical correlation to a state in the brain.Which is an awful lot of wiggle room for an altered state. I see things in novel ways, ways that I don't normally see the them, all the time. Is this an altered state, do you feel that I would be justified in claiming that I am experiencing altered states?
Quote:I didn't say what brain state or that I knew what brain state, just that there has to be a correlate in the brain to anything I am aware of. I don't know what else could be said about that or what an atheist who doesn't believe in the supernatural could disagree with about that, honestly.To say that there has to be a nueral correlate is to say nothing at all (between the two of us, anyway), and you've said a great deal more than just that, cmon now.
Quote:And I'm still not sure why day dreams are being treated differently in this discussion even though they actually fit the definition you have recently given.Were you daydreaming?
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