Re: Creationists declare war over the brain

Curt Welch wrote:
Josip Almasi <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In fact it seems you're a chatbot:)))))

He might be. You never know in this group. But he's such a damn good one
that you should just treat him like human because he's significantly better
than most humans in this group. :)

Yes makes me jealous my chatbots are obviously chatbots;)

Ok, but now you are saying what I said. But language is physical, so how
are laws not just matter as well?

I guess I don't get the point you were trying to make when you started all
this....

.... and I don't get my point any longer:) I'll have to go back remind myself what I was trying to say:)

Ah you mentioned *evil* dualism.

But dualism never really dissapeared, it was only hidden since it became politically incorrect. Like, when capitalism kicked in, materialism became dominant philosophy, of course.
However, dualism was expressed in many ways, say in quantum physics:) You know of these potentials and actualizations? Sounds kinda dualism... IIRC I accounted 8 main QM interpretations, each of them an application of a philosophical scool:)
But most common expression of dualism was introduction of 'mind', 'consciousness' and such, instead of now politically incorrect 'soul'.
Seems that we do need that dualism after all:)
But to be precise, soul is ethernal and mind is not, so thats the main difference between original dualism and nowadays variants, like functionalism.
Then again, if it's patterns, algorithms, or in a word, information, that matters, and not only matter, why wouldn't mind be ethernal?;)
So it's not that big difference after all.

And now that liberal capitalism is dead for good, and corporate merchantilism took place, dualism becomes politically correct once again. I can only hope that functionalism or some other smarter variant becomes dominant and not that stupid ID... I mean, check these poor fanatics bowing to their Prophet:>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CgvgjfwyPs

So I vote for matter/information dualism.

Regards...
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