RE: Neurosurgeon Provides Evidence Against Materialism
June 16, 2019 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2019 at 6:27 pm by SenseMaker007.)
(June 13, 2019 at 5:05 pm)ColdComfort Wrote:(June 13, 2019 at 12:08 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I'm interested in this home experiment, though. What is de to demonstrate that the authors ciding that I'm going to do the chicken dance in ten minutes meant to demonstrate, which others are we proving wrong, and about what?
The chicken dance experiment was meant to demonstrate that the authors were wrong in saying that a "non-physical essence" cannot control behavior.
A nonphysical essence is synonymous with a nonexistent one.
(June 15, 2019 at 1:58 pm)ColdComfort Wrote: I haven't mentioned or at least argued for an immaterial soul yet on this forum. Just the existence of conscious experiences distinct from brain activity and possessing causal power over behavior.
Your point about Aristotle being a materialist: He would not be a materialist in any sense in which we use the word today. Universals exist only in the mind it is true but they correspond to that within a physical object that makes it intelligible. The form of an object is ontologically distinct from it's matter. Further the form determines the behavior we see in physical things.
If someone wants to call him a materialist that's fine. It might also open a good discussion on what contemporary philosophy means by matter. The word is often used as if it's meaning is self-evident.
In my whole life, I've never even heard a coherent definition of nonphysical that doesn't refer to something that can't easily be physical. There's no reason to believe that there are two kinds of ultimate substances in the universe. Mind and matter are the same damn thing.
