Henry J
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| Quote | Reg, posted 11/07/09 2:58 AM
The language centres of Clive's brain keep firing:
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If love and compassion aren?t metaphysical, then they are physical, and can be removed or altered by a physical process, therefore your love for your mother or anyone else doesn?t even rise to the level of being a figment of your imagination, but rather a chemical process of material movements. In other words, they can be changed by a physical process, and if they can be changed by a physical process, then they don?t really exist, and neither does any other conclusion that can be altered in the same way, not even the conclusion that your thoughts are material, for they could, themselves, be altered for you to believe them to be metaphysical. The fatal flaw is that none of this way of thinking has anything at all to do with truth, only material movements. |
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I love the claim that "if they can be changed by a physical process, then they don?t really exist". Mount Everest can be changed by physical processes, and it certainly exists.
Two comments later Mark Frank points out that emotions can be altered by physical changes in the brain.
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So if something that's physical can be altered by something else that's physical, then the physical thing wasn't physical after all? Couldn't comments like that could produce the impression that somebody is mental (i.e., not physical)?
Henry
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