RE: An Argument Against Supernatural Causation
July 3, 2010 at 6:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2010 at 6:38 pm by Caecilian.)
(July 3, 2010 at 3:27 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote:(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.
I disagree. As I said in one of my previous posts, it seems to me that this 'alternative causation' makes the 'supernatural' into a natural category (amenable to scientific study being the hallmark of the natural).
@fr0d0:
You seem to be saying that asking for evidence for supernatural/ immaterial phenomena is somehow special pleading for materialism. So in your view, is it the case that there can be no evidence for supernatural phenomena, ever?
If so, then fine. We can dismiss the supernatural out of hand.
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Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
