(March 20, 2015 at 7:49 pm)Surgenator Wrote:(March 20, 2015 at 7:33 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: That stock objection is a straw man. Imagine a single sensible body like a boat. It has both a material of which it is made, say aluminum, and also partakes of a particular form. Anyone can see that the form 'acts' on the material by giving it properties, like buoyancy, and that the material allows the form to manifest. Form and material are inalienable and yet distinct, i.e. dualism.
The foam and the aluminum are allowed to interact because they're are both made out of material things. The mediator between them is the electromagnetic force between the atoms of the foam and the atoms of the aluminum. If the electromagnetic force didn't exist between the foam and aluminum, then those two would pass right through each other.
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