RE: Arguments against Soul
January 29, 2020 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2020 at 1:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do these ghosts and apparitions, derivative souls and spirits in unrest have sensory experiences?
Telling me that you believe in ghosts doesn't tell me why you believe in ghosts. In fact it doesn't tell me anything I didn't already know. If, however, we're going to go down the rabbit hole of "I believe this, because I believe that"..well.....have fun? You said you thought that this was the best explanation, not the one that you're invested in by other equally unevidenced beliefs.
Is an argument from incredulity convincing, and do you think that ghosts and apparitions are more common or specific than minds "playing tricks"?
-Bonus q, and something I've long wondered about this take, these semantics - what would qualify as a mind not "playing tricks"? What does a mind have to be doing to clear that hurdle for you? If you prefer, approached from the other angle, if soul is the seat of consciousness, and mind "plays tricks"...wouldn't that mean that soul is ultimately playing the trick? What would soul have to do to clear the same hurdle?
Telling me that you believe in ghosts doesn't tell me why you believe in ghosts. In fact it doesn't tell me anything I didn't already know. If, however, we're going to go down the rabbit hole of "I believe this, because I believe that"..well.....have fun? You said you thought that this was the best explanation, not the one that you're invested in by other equally unevidenced beliefs.
Is an argument from incredulity convincing, and do you think that ghosts and apparitions are more common or specific than minds "playing tricks"?
-Bonus q, and something I've long wondered about this take, these semantics - what would qualify as a mind not "playing tricks"? What does a mind have to be doing to clear that hurdle for you? If you prefer, approached from the other angle, if soul is the seat of consciousness, and mind "plays tricks"...wouldn't that mean that soul is ultimately playing the trick? What would soul have to do to clear the same hurdle?
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