(November 22, 2013 at 1:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Correct! And that is exactly why I believe 1) substance dualism and 2) that physical monist theories of mind lead to existencial nihilism, I.e. a purely physical system is in itself meaningless.
So, you believe in substance dualism because my definition of data-processing sounds to Benny like something a substance dualist would say? That has to be the weakest reason for holding a particular outlook.