Are most people here epiphenomenalists? Physicalists?

  • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    The mind is the definition of a subjective experience. Since science is the study of observable phenomenon, and it cannot be observed in others, it’s beyond science to study. All the resy is just speculation.

    In other words, the world may never know. Count me agnostic

  • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I don’t understand the problem, the mind is emergant from the physical. The physical little wires in my brain make the “mind”. So of course it can influence my body, and my body can influence my mind, because the mind is part of the body.

    • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      That’s physicalism just using different words for mind and body, but acknowledging that both are really the same thing: the physical.