Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psychedelic use

Re:Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psyche... by mensetmanusman on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:38PM (#40089757)

I believe we know, based on any definition of knowing - I.e. assuming we can know anything at all, and realizing that any definitions of knowing are all circular to an extent, that the electron follows some laws.

I agree that the universe doesn't care how we approximate these laws, but only that they clearly exist.

If these laws exist, they are certainly not material, unless you redefine material, and that is why I am no longer a materialist :)

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Re:Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psyche... by shric on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:58PM (#40152454)

You're technically correct (the best kind of correct)!

However, I don't think any materialist would deny laws of physics exist. We might say that how materials interact with each other is an intrinsic property of material itself, just as an electron behaves as though it has a certain mass.

What definition of material would you use that separates it from its laws?

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