RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 26, 2022 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2022 at 3:43 pm by LadyForCamus.)
@GrandizerII and @Belacqua, thank you for taking the time with me. Grand, I know you’re feeling frustrated, and I really do appreciate it. Bel said something:
“The point is that for property dualists, these two things, while apparently occurring somehow in correlation, are very different properties and the one can't be reduced to the other.”
If 2. cannot be reduced to 1. (electrochemical firings between neuron synapses), and if we already have a generally decent understanding of 1., then what, exactly, is 2.? Just “something different”? If we assume there is a hard problem of consciousness (neurological versus phenomenological) for the sake of the argument, it seems to me that property dualism doesn’t offer a satisfying explanation that solves it any more effectively than physicalist/reductionist positions. It strikes me as the same mystery, just framed differently.
“The point is that for property dualists, these two things, while apparently occurring somehow in correlation, are very different properties and the one can't be reduced to the other.”
If 2. cannot be reduced to 1. (electrochemical firings between neuron synapses), and if we already have a generally decent understanding of 1., then what, exactly, is 2.? Just “something different”? If we assume there is a hard problem of consciousness (neurological versus phenomenological) for the sake of the argument, it seems to me that property dualism doesn’t offer a satisfying explanation that solves it any more effectively than physicalist/reductionist positions. It strikes me as the same mystery, just framed differently.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
