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maybe I dont know what contingent means. care to clarify?
I believe in Quality.
Thank you, Victor, and you as well.Only because you are a person of quality.
Materialism
The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter, and is considered a form of physicalism. Fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance.
Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dualist
In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the claim that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.
Dualism (philosophy of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I'm a materialist. Believing in dualism (and often by extension - souls, spirits, God(s), New Age..) sounds nice, but I know the main arguments in favor of dualism, and none convince me so far or cause me to doubt materialism. The 'subjectivity of mental states' argument is I think the strongest argument for dualism.
I'd like to what you all think on the subject and where you stand.
I'm not ashamed to admit I'm solely a man of quantity. Quality is too hard and difficult a commodity to aspire for. Ill settle for the easier and more plentiful route.
What has eluded you sir, is that is that a sufficient quantity morphs into quality.
I'm definitely a dualist, without the hocus pocus (god, souls, etc.). I'll more easily doubt the outside, physical world (perhaps a delusion of some sort) rather than my own internal, mental world.
Materialism
The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter, and is considered a form of physicalism. Fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance.
Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dualist
In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the claim that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.
Dualism (philosophy of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I'm a materialist. Believing in dualism (and often by extension - souls, spirits, God(s), New Age..) sounds nice, but I know the main arguments in favor of dualism, and none convince me so far or cause me to doubt materialism. The 'subjectivity of mental states' argument is I think the strongest argument for dualism.
I'd like to what you all think on the subject and where you stand.
You could also be a neutral monist (think the fundamental stuff of reality is a hybrid of matter and mind), or you could also be an immaterialist, think reality is purely mental.
Is there another choice?Materialism
The philosophy of materialism holds that the only thing that can be truly proven to exist is matter, and is considered a form of physicalism. Fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions; therefore, matter is the only substance.
Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dualist
In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, which begins with the claim that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.
Dualism (philosophy of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
I'm a materialist. Believing in dualism (and often by extension - souls, spirits, God(s), New Age..) sounds nice, but I know the main arguments in favor of dualism, and none convince me so far or cause me to doubt materialism. The 'subjectivity of mental states' argument is I think the strongest argument for dualism.
I'd like to what you all think on the subject and where you stand.
Is there another choice?
I am not a materialist.
When you look at something, you collapse a wave. Is it our mind that causes this collapse? This is an answer I cannot give (and that has not been given yet, to my knowledge). Therefore, given that materialism negates this possibility altogether, I have to place myself in the dualist category.
Is there another choice?
I am not a materialist.