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An Argument Against Supernatural Causation

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An Argument Against Supernatural Causation
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RE: An Argument Against Supernatural Causation
July 3, 2010 at 3:27 am (This post was last modified: July 3, 2010 at 4:38 am by Purple Rabbit.)
(June 30, 2010 at 5:02 am)Caecilian Wrote: The first section of your post seems to me to point towards Kim's argument being valid- extra dimensions don't help for more or less the same reasons that spatializing the soul doesn't help.
Quite the contrary. It shows that Kim's argument is invalidated by string theory because in string theory there are other spatial dimensions that (in principle) can "carry" causal chains undetectable for us.
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RE: An Argument Against Supernatural Causation - by Purple Rabbit - July 3, 2010 at 3:27 am

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