Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think

Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by marccantwell on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:01PM (#15290451)

It is hard to take the author seriously, or as an authority, when he rejects materialism and states something like "Physical death is merely a de-clenching of awareness", and he believes in the afterlife.

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by nsxwolf on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:36AM (#15291287)

Why does that make the author hard to take seriously? Because of your bias toward materialism?

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by Marazan on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:09AM (#15291425)

Well, when it comes to consciousness the alternative is dualism and dualism is the belief in magic.

Given how discredited dualism is it is amazing how far people will go to deny hey are dualists whilst spouting all the arguements and beliefs of dualists.

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by goatlover on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:51AM (#15291588)

Dualism is the belief there is more than one fundamental substance in the world (mind & matter). There's nothing magical about that, it's just an ontological position. But it does have the problem of how mind & matter interact.

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by Marazan on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @08:57AM (#15293205)

But it does have the problem of how mind & matter interact.

Yes, that is where the magic is.

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Re:Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think by mehh on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:08AM (#15291421)

Complete lack of evidence to support his "belief" that sounds very much like supernatural religious magic.

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