(June 28, 2010 at 5:20 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: It seems to me that Jaegwon Kim is boldly defining causality as a temporal-spatial relationship in the traditional dimensions we know. What if reality has additional dimensions, hidden from our observation, where souls reside and where trajectories through these additional dimensions pair event A to event B in such a way that A neccessitates B? Than it would look like magical or supernatural causation to us, wouldn't it? How can Kim rule that out?
I agree with you in that Kim's chain of reasoning has flaws.
But by the same argument: How could we rule the existence of god out? I think the burden of proof lies on the other side: A materialistic view explains our behavior very well (and better each day) - so why do we need the concept of souls or of god?
If anyone can come up with physical evidence for a soul, I will believe in its existence - otherwise no!
