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So, if someone created a falsifiable model of the soul that produced sensory interactions, would that mean the soul is physical? In my mind this demonstrates '
by yters 8y ago
So, if someone created a falsifiable model of the soul that produced sensory interactions, would that mean the soul is physical?
In my mind this demonstrates 'physical' is not very well defined by physicalism, since souls etc. are considered to be non-physical, yet could in theory meet the requirements of physicalism.
- n4r9 8y agoWell, if someone produced such a model then they probably wouldn't be talking about the same soul as, say, the Christian soul. Also the word "physical" has a different usage amongst philosophers than amongst laymen. In philosophy, a thought or idea might be thought of as physical since it is a property or pattern of neurological activity, but the average person would not say a thought was physical.