RE: Why science and religious fatih need not be in conflict: It's as easy as 1-2-3!
May 9, 2017 at 4:21 pm
(May 9, 2017 at 2:23 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 9, 2017 at 2:11 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Sure, physicalism posits a mind which exists in a world of its own making. This 'intentionality' that you speak of can be of things that are entirely fictions of the mind. Even without physicalism, we know that not everything thought up by the mind exists as a real world thing.
You just cut off the branch on which you were sitting. Since everything in the mind is of its own making, then any connection to something real is entirely fortuitous.
In deed it is! Let us give thanks for having evolved in such a way as to successfully link our sensory/cognitive array to something real. Good old evolution!