RE: Bursting the God Pacebo?
January 28, 2014 at 4:56 pm
(January 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: …my intuition tells me there's a natural explanation for it, and yours says it's magic.
Intuition also tells you that you have free will, moral agency, an enduring personal identity, and meaningful values. If your philosophical stance goes against these then it comes at a very high cost. But I think you would agree that our intuitions may not reflect reality as it actually is.
(January 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: I'm glad you recognize that there's an interaction problem, but I'm confused as to why you then went from a seemingly sincere admittance to having insufficient evidence to your claim to asserting a solution by means of "source of intentionality".
You must have a hypothesis before it can be tested for evidence. The testable hypothesis is that some quantum process could serve as a means to support a dualist position. That’s the science end of the stick. What remains falls under metaphysics. The same is true for cosmology. Physical science can take you very close to the beginning, but cannot explain why there is something and not nothing.
(January 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: …as soon as you begin using physical terms, your whole concept falls apart.
… the same is true in reverse. Once you start to use teleological terms to explain physical concepts ontological naturalism falls apart. That is the point of my other current thread.
(January 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: Even on a quantum level, it is matter that is being talked about.
Agreed.
(January 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: Waves, energy, matter, these are all physical terms.
Agreed.
(January 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: Describe to me this source of pure "intentionality", what are some of it's properties?
What I called the source of pure intentionality is similar to Plotinus’s “Soul of All.” It’s properties include: qualitative awareness, the ability to apply meaning, and the capacity to manifest choices.