RE: Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"
October 7, 2016 at 10:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2016 at 10:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Except when it comes to mind, right? That is the entirety of your objection to my statements, whether you realize it or not. Thre's no sense in saying "science works and can be trusted" and then immediately say that mind hasn;t been discovered, or that brain accounting for mind is non-science, or handwaving. If it works, and can be trusted...it's telling us that your mind, including your qualia, are material in origin, composition, and function. Sp, regardless of whether or not there is some non-materialist "x" out there, somewhere, this specific example aint it.
Or, you can immediately contradict yourself, and begin the special pleading argument once again. That you accept and subsume materialism for all other things, but balk at mind, at qualia.
Or, you can immediately contradict yourself, and begin the special pleading argument once again. That you accept and subsume materialism for all other things, but balk at mind, at qualia.
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