if god exists can somebody answer why he create the universe? — papamuratte
There is no mind-body problem. The body (including the CNS) produces "the mind". "The mind" is the noise the brain makes. No brain: silence. — Bitter Crank
well Theism is compatible with self generating universe,
in Hinduism there is such belief and things like parallel universes also comes up
[the nature of god ]is what i want to know — papamuratte
Are the mind and body are separate substances or elements of the same substance (dualism or materialism)? — Yajur
if god exists can somebody answer why he create the universe? — papamuratte
I guess I am a panpsychist property dualist monist. — bert1
Due to conclusions from Quantum-Mechanics, many or most physicists don't believe in Materialism anymore. — Michael Ossipoff
Due to conclusions from Quantum-Mechanics, many or most physicists don't believe in Materialism anymore. — Michael Ossipoff
By Quantum Mechanics I assume you mean Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle aka the observer effect.
— Yajur
I want to clarify how the observer affect or anything in Quantum Mechanics isn't in contradiction with materialism.
This is contradictory, 1 makes the claim that everything has mental element while 2 says everything is fundamentally physical. — Yajur
I'd be curious re the source of the data re whether most physicists are materialists — Terrapin Station
. . . And curious, for that matter, how they'd attempt to even describe what a nonphysical existent is supposed to be
..., how we're supposed to know about it, etc.
.Yajur quoted you saying this: "Due to conclusions from Quantum-Mechanics, many or most physicists don't believe in Materialism anymore. — Michael Ossipoff"
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That's what I was referring to re the first part.
.Re the other part, if they're not materialists, they must think that some things that exist are nonphysical.
.So I was wondering what the heck those things [“some things that exist [and] are nonphysical”] would be
.…, just how they'd figure that nonphsyical things even make sense, etc.
Not necessarily. I’m not a Materialist, but I don’t make any claim about anything describable (and describability is part of my definition of “thing”) existing. — Michael Ossipoff
You believe things exist that you can't describe? — Terrapin Station
You believe that words describe everything? — Michael Ossipoff
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