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I have a short article that covers some similar topics. In the third paragraph I make a strong argument against materialism by examining consciousness. http://
by gsmsg 11y ago
I have a short article that covers some similar topics. In the third paragraph I make a strong argument against materialism by examining consciousness.
http://www.gmw6.com/belief_through_reason.html http://www.gmw6.com/belief_through_reason.html
- jshen 11y ago> it seems disingenuous to either believe that many separate things can have a synthesized experience. This isn't an argument, it's merely an assertion of a point of view, and one that isn't obviously true. The evidence on the other side of the argument seems much stronger than your argument about our visual field. When you look at all of the examples of brain damage causing peoples personalities to change dramatically, well you have a high hill to climb to say that who we are isn't material in nature.
- gsmsg 11y agothe quoted text foreshadows the argument about visual fields. I'm not saying that the brain isn't important, just that it cannot solely explain our conscious experience. This alone is sufficient to defeat materialism.
- vectorjohn 11y agoSo... magic.
- ryanobjc 11y agoHonestly, I didn't really follow this line: "if we take drugs we get stupid" You obviously haven't taken much drugs! Some do in fact make you smarter.
- gsmsg 11y agoMaybe I should change that to say harmful drugs.
- skissane 11y agoGhassan, I was intrigued by your article. I wanted to share with you some thoughts I had regarding it, via email rather than here. But the email address you post on your website is broken. Your domain lacks an MX record. You might want to fix that.