RE: Arguments against Soul
September 26, 2019 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2019 at 9:18 am by GrandizerII.)
(September 26, 2019 at 9:06 am)Succubus Wrote:(September 26, 2019 at 8:11 am)Jehanne Wrote: This is where we were disagree:
The World of Everyday Experience, In One Equation
For those who do not want to click the link, here it is:
Consciousness, "whatever" it is, is governed by the above equation. Period. I agree (and, so does Professor Carroll, and, by extension, all other physicists) that consciousness is not reducible, but, nothing in the brain is "outside" of the above equation. Ultimately, consciousness is simply very large amounts of electrons transitioning from one energy state to others, if you wish, a kaleidoscope of light and energy, but, consciousness is just matter and energy, nothing more.
Beautiful.
To add to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq_FhUbWz7k
Minute 44 - 49.30 is the uppercut that floors the mystics.
Only it won't.
Why would "woo-ists" agree that we have all the ingredients we need for reality in electrons and such? I feel like Sean Carroll is begging the question here in favor of naturalism ... which is fine, except those who disagree with him don't accept naturalism?
(September 26, 2019 at 9:11 am)Aegon Wrote:(September 26, 2019 at 9:03 am)Grandizer Wrote: How many people here are going to understand what this equation is saying exactly?
I sort of doubt almost anyone here does. Unless we really have that many formally educated physicists on the forum?
There's polymath and prob Anomalocaris (and Alex K long gone). Can't remember who else.