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Non-materialism isn't as far-fetched as you make it out to be. In fact, no materialist account has managed to give a plausible explanation of how subjectivity a
by apl 15y ago
Non-materialism isn't as far-fetched as you make it out to be. In fact, no materialist account has managed to give a plausible explanation of how subjectivity and qualia emerge from physical substrates. Not so far, at least.
See David Chalmers, among others.
EDIT: Really? Downvotes?
- tedkimble 15y agoHave you looked into a Deleuzian materialist philosophy? I like DeLanda's article on the open-ended nature of the world: http://www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de/virtualitaet/delanda.htm http://www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de/virtualitaet/delanda.h...
- CamperBob 15y agoI'd say the burden of proof is on the antimaterialist schools.
- khafra 15y agoThe short version, without references or argumentation: Science can't prove that there aren't any supernatural requirements for a sentient mind. However, Science has proven that most of our intuitions about our own cognition are wrong. Since intuition is the only evidence we have that subjectivity and qualia can arise from mysterious nonphysical processes but not computational, physical processes, Occam's Razor demands that we accept the explanation which accords with proven laws of physics.