(November 16, 2014 at 8:37 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 15, 2014 at 12:38 pm)whateverist Wrote: Don't forget that you never escape being an electro-chemical being with emotional and feeling states as well as cognitive ones...I would dispute, on both experiential and philosophical grounds that physical reduction does not capture the fullness of what it means to be human.
I don't see how the incompleteness of a physical account of human experience suggests the existence of a non-physical existence. Emergent properties of physical substance would seem to sufficient. The leap to bogey men seems unwarranted.
(November 16, 2014 at 8:37 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(November 15, 2014 at 12:38 pm)whateverist Wrote: ...all you have now is your remembrance of the event - and that isn't the same thing at all.Nor do we remember dreams with the salience they had while we slept, but they can contribute to our waking lives even as our waking lives intrude into our dreams.
You'll get no argument from me on that score. I think dreams and altered states can keep the mind open and interested. But I would have to stop short of declaring anything conclusive regarding any of it.
