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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by adrianN on Sunday March 18, 2018 @02:24PM (#16613393)
Dark matter: Just because we don't know the laws yet, that doesn't mean that it's magic.

Social dynamics: Give me a sufficiently powerful computer and complete information about the starting state and I can probably give you a pretty good approximation what happens.

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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by manjushri on Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:21PM (#16613729)
>Just because we don't know the laws yet, that doesn't mean that it's magic.

This is a strawman often thrown up when the blind spots of science are pointed out.

Magic is a fancy word for something that we have no provable explanation of. Asserting "mind is material" seems like a hubristic explanation of an imaginary thing.

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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by jonbarker on Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:27PM (#16613758)
It's also somewhat of a tautology because physicists don't really have a 'solid' understanding of what constitutes material. Pun intended.
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