Timeline for What's the difference between saying everything is made from mental substance and everything is made from physical substance?
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| May 6 at 10:18 | comment | added | Marriott | Reincarnation studies? There are no reincarnation studies in any reputable journals. Why is this upvoted? | |
| May 4 at 20:52 | comment | added | Dcleve | @edelex Thomas Campbell, Douglas Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, and a consortium of authors led by Edward Kelley have all advocated for idealism in recent decades. They each have different ideas. I have read books by Kastrup and Kelley’s team. Here are reviews: amazon.com/gp/aw/review/1782793623/…. amazon.com/gp/aw/review/1442232382/… | |
| May 4 at 8:42 | comment | added | edelex | I see, so a materialist or idealist would deny that the other has a substance rather than just being emergent? Can you explain the view that material is emergent from ideas | |
| May 2 at 14:44 | comment | added | TKoL | @Dcleve just trying to find out the boundaries of the "testable" claim. Physicalism is falsifiable, so that's good. I just want to understand if the other things on the table are equally falsifiable, and how they might be falsified. | |
| May 2 at 14:28 | comment | added | Dcleve | @TKoL There are multiple non physicalisms. There are three different ontologies noted in my answer. For spiritual dualism and idealism, if we never had any evidence of any independent consciousness or agency separate from matter, that would be a pretty big strike. That would not close the deal for physicalism as emergent dualism and neutral monism are also alternatives, and neither lead to discarnate consciousness. | |
| May 2 at 13:20 | comment | added | TKoL | @Dcleve if proof of reincarnation could falsify physicalism, what sort of test could falsify non physicalism? | |
| May 2 at 12:47 | comment | added | Dcleve | @TKoL. Here is one summary article. med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/… Here is DOPS website for reincarnation studies. med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/publications/… | |
| May 2 at 12:40 | comment | added | TKoL | @Dcleve do you have any links for reincarnation studies? That's the only thing I could see in your answer that comes close to the "testable" claim that I could see | |
| May 2 at 12:39 | comment | added | Dcleve | @CriglCragl Why do you think that things must “partake of each others qualities” before they can interact? This is a theory that appears not to be true for all sorts of interactions, and is not derivable from logical necessity. | |
| May 2 at 12:34 | history | edited | Dcleve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 2 at 12:27 | comment | added | CriglCragl | Substance-dualist? How do you address the interaction problem, of how the substances can interact without partaking of each other's qualities? | |
| May 2 at 12:00 | comment | added | Dcleve | @TKoL I provided examples of test cases of matter that appears not to be conscious and consciousness that appears independent of matter in my answer. Fourth paragraph. | |
| May 2 at 10:35 | comment | added | TKoL | "testable in principle" how would one test that? | |
| May 2 at 9:54 | history | edited | Dcleve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 2 at 6:44 | history | answered | Dcleve | CC BY-SA 4.0 |