What makes people irrational thinkers?

[Deesse23]

Like in "that which makes blood red"?
Kindly demonstrate that there is a "that", before we go to the demonstration that this "that" could be, or in fact is, a soul.

I am always bothered when something is defined as 'that which does something'.

Me too (obviously)

First of all, its completely meaningless. It adds absolutely no content to what we already know or believe. The only "thing" such a claim adds is the unsupported assertion that there is something special, where it could be either some emergent property/combination of things we already know to exist or a gazillion other causes.

It leaves however, for wannabe philosophers, enough (= all) wiggle room in case they want to backpedal or distance themselves from their own unsubstantiated assertion, by giving no content to attack/criticize if one makes the mistake of accepting said unsupported assertion in the first place.

I can accept such a thought process from some ancient philosopher, but i am expecting more, much more, from a person of the modern age, after science has shown us so often how this kind of conclusion "this which does x" was simply wrong.

Someone invoking metaphysics in
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