RE: Dualism vs Materialism or Mind vs Soul
May 16, 2013 at 1:55 pm
(May 16, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Faith No More Wrote: What I don't know is why you think we should consider the soul as anything more than complete speculation.
Well gee. Nearly everything starts out as speculation, right? I do not see speculation about spiritual reality as being all that much different from speculating about multiverses.
(May 16, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Those other theories you referenced had positive evidence that demonstrated their existence.
The evidence was already present. What was lacking was a theory capable of accounting for that evidence.
(May 16, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Faith No More Wrote: ...all you have is an undefined supernatural substance with which you use to plug the holes you poke in a natural explanation.
Again the word natural. You are using semantics to exclude inconvenient evidence. The scientific method intentionally excludes subjective experience and intentionallity. It's pretty easy to defend your skepticism if you don't consider/take for granted half the phenomena of reality.
