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I think "physical process" already covers a lot of ground besides metaphysics. My main distinction was that anything physical is governed by the laws of physics
by xg15 4y ago
I think "physical process" already covers a lot of ground besides metaphysics. My main distinction was that anything physical is governed by the laws of physics that we know and that are generally deterministic.
In contrast, metaphysics would be something entirely out of our realm of reality - which was how consciousness has been generally seen for a long time.
But what other possibility would you see?
Edit:
> (i) biological and psychological processes
Sorry, I had mixed up the word there. I was meaning "physical process", not "psychological". I had edited the other post to fix the word.
- wellpast 4y agoI think what you're doing is just saying "there's stuff we understand" and "stuff we don't understand" and you're calling all of it "Physics". And then you say "some other biological or physical process that so far isn't identified". The assumption here is that we'll eventually "identify" everything, which is another very bizarre, if not voodoo, assumption. It seems magical to think that humans evolved our perception and thought in this environment to be such things that could eventaully "identify" everything. But just in case you don't actually think that. Then you're calling "Physics" all of the things, including the things that we'll never "identify". Again, seems very much like a magic claim.
- akimball 4y agoPhysical laws are stochastic, not deterministic.