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> Materialists, physicalists, or naturalists[2] might scoff at such explanations (especially if they've never had strong psychedelic experiences, though sometim
by Trasmatta 5y ago
> Materialists, physicalists, or naturalists[2] might scoff at such explanations (especially if they've never had strong psychedelic experiences, though sometimes even then)
I've had strong psychedelic and dissociative experiences. There's nothing about those experiences that cannot be explained with materialism.
- pmoriarty 5y ago"There's nothing about those experiences that cannot be explained with materialism." Or with religion. People pick and choose the explanations they like, and neither scientific nor religious explanations are going to be satisfactory for everyone. It'd be another story if science could at least explain the really big open questions about the mind, consciousness, the mind-body connection, and how psychedelics work.. but we are very, very far from that.