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The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
(July 14, 2023 at 6:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But can you demonstrate that disembodied minds exist? I’ll save you the trouble: you can’t.

I can, that's just not the topic for it. The point was that we can conceive of disembodied minds. We have tons of stories about ghosts and all kinds of spirits that interact with reality, we had absolutely no problem making them up.

(July 14, 2023 at 6:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In fact, the concept of a disembodied mind is…wait for it…incoherent.

You probably forgot to check out the sizeable chunk of philosophy that says disembodied minds are a coherent concept.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/1...-0024/html

Quote : "Even though the Cartesian mind-body dualism has largely been dismissed in contemporary philosophy, the idea that the conscious mind can be a bodiless and non-spatial entity is still held to be possible. This paper examines a series of arguments by Jaegwon Kim, Peter Strawson, and Immanuel Kant against the possibility of a disembodied mind. It is argued that although the concept of a disembodied mind is coherent, it derives from a more fundamental concept in which the mind and the body are originally unified"
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RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress. - by Loaded dice - July 14, 2023 at 6:24 pm

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