So what? You operate (at least as a default position) under the assumption that other scientists don't lie to you about this, when they say that, e.g. they ran the math again and it doesn't work. — Olivier5
It is undisputed that there are (1) minds and (2) bodies. I count two things, which means it is undisputed that dualism is the case. — Hanover
There is life and there is matter. They mix but neither can be derived from the other. — Protagoras
Scientists operate on the assumption of an objectively real physical universe, not on the assumption of non-physical minds. — Kenosha Kid
You are assuming wrongfully that life comes from matter. — Protagoras
As Searle said, the man on the street is a Cartesian. You're barking up the wrong tree.
What's the draw of property dualism? It takes a tiny bit of philomind to answer that. Last time I talked to 180 he came up pretty short in that area, so I don't expect much
I don't think it's necessary to invent a new material to explain why people think and trees don't in a complex sense. — Cheshire
Well, if that was the case they wouldn't be found working together. Maybe they aren't interchangeable but some type of exchange ought be taking place.The distinct and separate substance of substance dualism are not able to exchange energy, for neither one cannot walk the walk and talk the talk of the other. — PoeticUniverse
some type of exchange ought be taking place. — Cheshire
We are all property dualists insofar as we recognize two basic kinds of action or process; the mental and the physical. As 180 Proof says, this is an epistemological, not a metaphysical or ontological, statement since it is referring to our ways of understanding the world. — Janus
What sort of material stuff is reason made of, in your view? Or are you arguing vice versa, that all matter is made of reason? — Olivier5
More precisely, scientists operate on the assumption of an objectively real physical universe, understandable by human minds. — Olivier5
More precisely, scientists operate on the assumption of an objectively real physical universe, understandable by human minds.
— Olivier5
That's probably true more often than not, — Kenosha Kid
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