(September 25, 2019 at 3:52 pm)possibletarian Wrote:(September 25, 2019 at 2:04 pm)Aegon Wrote: I don't think there is a good reason to say there is an immaterial portion of a person that exists outside of the mind; rather, I think there's good reason not to be as confident there isn't. I think that, if there is, it requires a type of thinking that is very divorced from the way we currently evaluate our material universe. I don't know much beyond that.
Okay, so what are those reasons ?
And what other way of evaluation our universe should we use, what kind of justifiable thinking could we use ?
Those reasons are; the all pervasive power of magical thinking foisted on our psyches by sixteen hundred years of priest craft. Rational thinkers we may be, but the ghost is still in the machine.
Physics has shown us that there is no possible way out thoughts can exist in a realm other that our brain. But that won't stop speculation as to what shape or colour the soul is.
Once people accept magical thinking all bets are off, and physics be damned.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
