(May 16, 2013 at 1:04 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I'm suggesting that every so often the entire model changes to cope with phenomena that the old model either 1) took for granted, 2) dismissed as irrelevant, or 3) cannot incorporate. All three apply to the current model of physical reality as it relates to the hard problem of consciousness.
I know what you're suggesting. What I don't know is why you think we should consider the soul as anything more than complete speculation. Those other theories you referenced had positive evidence that demonstrated their existence. So far, all you have is an undefined supernatural substance with which you use to plug the holes you poke in a natural explanation.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
