(January 14, 2019 at 7:33 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: I would like to add that my long book report was not just a series of assertions drawn out of thin air, but a series of conclusions or speculations based on careful scientific observations over many years. Explaining what we actually observe, which is what scientists do slowly over time, is not the same kind of activity as some philosophers who tend to question even carefully collected observations until they are adequately explained.Let me clarify. I'm all about brain science, and very interested in the effects of drugs on the brain, in special-state experiences like the "zone," and so on. So I don't want you to think I'm anti-science.
However, there's a real philosophical divide between the essence of subjectivism and objectivism that I think doesn't lend well to a monistic conflation-- i.e., just saying mind is brain function doesn't really satisfy someone who wants to know how a material system can experience, when the capacity for experience is almost never considered in making physical observations of material systems.
