(January 23, 2015 at 9:02 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I made no mention of souls and I don’t need to. What is demonstrable is that mental properties, by virtue of their intentionality, are distinct from physical states. Physical reduction is only one among many possibilities.
If physical reduction is a possibility and is in fact the reality, then mental properties are not distinct from physical states. If physical reduction is true, then mental properties are physical states. You've proposed a dichotomy and collapsed it all in one breath. You're talking out of both sides of your mouth.
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