RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 23, 2020 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2020 at 3:01 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
I once heard someone argue for the existence of souls by claiming that the brain functions as radio receiver, communicating the will of the soul unto the body. Notice that in such a view, the brain is a correlate of the soul, without the soul being reduced to the brain. Why? Because a correlation is not a reduction. Even in Chalmers' view consciousness still correlates with the physical brain:
Reference: Chalmers, D. (2010). The character of consciousness. Oxford University Press: London
- "A nonreductive theory of consciousness will consist in a number of psychophysical principles, principles that connect the properties of physical processes to the properties of experience. We can think of these principles as encapsulating the way in which experience arises from the physical" (Chalmers, 2010, p. 20).
Reference: Chalmers, D. (2010). The character of consciousness. Oxford University Press: London