tackattack Wrote:qualiaWhat makes you think it's real? If it were real, how come do all or nearly all people report irritation when they hear high-frequency sounds, yet nobody reports irritation when they hear low-frequency sounds? If qualia were real, we would expect some people to report irritation when they hear low-frequency sounds, right?
tackattack Wrote:qualitative consciousnessWhat does that mean?
tackattack Wrote:determinismDeterminism is impossible by the laws of physics, such as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Nothing to discuss here.
tackattack Wrote:free willFree will exists in the sense that determinism is impossible at the quantum level, and of course some quantum effects play a role in our brain. But that's all there is, it causes our brains, as well as our computers, to make mistakes sometimes.
tackattack Wrote:mindAll that we know about mind points to it being generated by the physical brain. Had computers existed back in the day, probably no philosopher would suggest mind is immaterial.
tackattack Wrote:NDEAnecdotal evidence of the lowest possible quality. Many NDEs contain hallucinatory features, such as encountering living persons or demonstrably fictional characters in the transcendental realm, and the right inference from that is that all NDEs are hallucinations.
tackattack Wrote:supernaturalSupernatural explanations can't be scientifically tested and there is every reason to dismiss them. And they have a horrible track record of being always superseded by a scientific natural explanation (in antiquity, people used to believe earthquakes were a sign of God, now we know they aren't...).
tackattack Wrote:moralityThe fact that some actions lead to good consequences and some lead to bad consequences doesn't require any kind of supernatural explanation. And good and evil are easily defined in terms of natural realm: evil is simply that which causes suffering.