(September 9, 2011 at 10:20 am)StatCrux Wrote:(September 8, 2011 at 2:46 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Materialists know that thoughts are electrical impulses between neurons, therefore they can be ordered.
Thats a very bold assertion, could you elaborate a little more?
It certainly is, isn't it? I'm interested in hearing this assertion walked out beyond the "it's merely" magic wand phase, but nobody seems to be interested in that.
Quote:How are "thoughts" contained/consist of or in any way made up of electrical impulses? Can you explain how "electrical impulses" are interpreted as thoughts? Are you saying that thought has material existence?
My pony is supposed to be somewhere in there with those electrical impulses. Of course, nobody has the slightest clue where. The pony has no physical attributes, so it doesn't exist within the stated parameters of materialism, yet somehow, something that doesn't exist is accepted as a given to be exclusively located somewhere where it cannot be found.
I don't for a second question the existence of a dream pony, but I do question the sense in such an obviously garbled philosophy.
