Look, guys, dualism (the existence of both material and immaterial things) requires the laws of physics not strictly applying to our brain (or the pituitary, or wherever we assume the material and immaterial communicate with each other) because of the immaterial things applying "forces" to the material things there, do we agree?
The ideas obviously exist, that is, the thoughts and emotions obviously exist, so why assume the material things also exist? Why it can't be that our whole bodies, including the neurons in our brain, as well as the other things we usually take to be material, such as chairs, are, in fact, immaterial? The only problem I see here is whether it implies the existence of God. Berkeley thinks it does. I think that our world being immaterial, but without a supreme being, is actually conceivable.
Much like the cellular automata. Turing-complete cellular automata arise naturally all the time, and they are able to (theoretically, with very low probability of it actually happening) simulate all the other Turing-complete systems, without having to be simulated themselves. Our universe may not actually be a cellular automation, but I think the analogy is applicable.
The ideas obviously exist, that is, the thoughts and emotions obviously exist, so why assume the material things also exist? Why it can't be that our whole bodies, including the neurons in our brain, as well as the other things we usually take to be material, such as chairs, are, in fact, immaterial? The only problem I see here is whether it implies the existence of God. Berkeley thinks it does. I think that our world being immaterial, but without a supreme being, is actually conceivable.
Much like the cellular automata. Turing-complete cellular automata arise naturally all the time, and they are able to (theoretically, with very low probability of it actually happening) simulate all the other Turing-complete systems, without having to be simulated themselves. Our universe may not actually be a cellular automation, but I think the analogy is applicable.
