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John Schmeeckle's avatar

"Modern science" peddles the absurd "reductionist materialist" solution to the old mind-body problem.

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babaganusz's avatar

you forgot to put scare quotes around "absurd" as well, since you appear to be smuggling in dubious assumptions throughout your loaded sentence.

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

babaganusz,

You clearly don't see reductionist materialism as absurd.

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babaganusz's avatar

that's clear to you? neat mind-reading trick.

maybe i've been given no reason to trust your assessment of it as "reductionist", and have only ever seen that qualifier leveled by folks who prefer special pleading to appeal to unfalsifiable notions.

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John Schmeeckle's avatar

It was implicit in what you wrote. "Reductionist" here means the view that everything reduces to material phenomena that can be measured.

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