RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 5, 2016 at 10:13 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2016 at 10:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 5, 2016 at 3:22 am)bennyboy Wrote:Do you even know what you want? See, just like I gave you an explanation of sound before, in regards to questions of what music is made out of, I will relay to you the manners of inference contained within the scientific method...since you're asking for validty, and simply remind you that mind being accounted for by brain is the conclusion of -every- scientific experiment regarding either and that there isn't a single dissenting observation. You don't want to be seen arguing against the means of inference in science again, I'm sure. So let;s both save ourselves that headache, eh?(October 4, 2016 at 9:04 pm)Rhythm Wrote: "Prove my repeated insistence wrong" - No. "Defend this position I just came up with for you". No.Look, you have a position about the nature of mind, and assert it positively. Fine. . . demonstrate that your assertion has validity to it. So far, you haven't
Do your own homework.
You don't want mind, you want qualia..except here again I'll simply remind you that brain accounting for qualia is not only the conclusion of every scientific experiment regarding either, with no dissenting observations...but that arguing otherwise forces you to make endless special pleading, concept stealing, ad naus appeals to solipsism.
What you want, is a full and accurate description and explanation of qualia. Thing is, that won't help you, I don't have it...and there's actually no requirement that I do...it won;'t make any of your many statements in this thread anything other than what they were, and the absence of what you want doesn't argue against materialism.
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