Re: Criticism of philosophical materialism (and a comment on someone2)

On May 2, 6:13 pm, urthogie <urtho...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 2, 1:00 pm, geop...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I don't get this. Can you explain what you mean by subjective
experience? Below you say that material brain activity is associated
with thoughts, and that it can be manipulated physically. Surely
that's evidence that the mind arises from a physical entity (as
opposed to an immaterial source), or am I misunderstanding you?

No, you're not misunderstanding me. My claim is that subjective
experience exists, and it is correlated with physical events in the
brain. It's not either or.

Also, how can we have sensory evidence of the immaterial, if
immaterial means it can't be detected?

Because we experience existence. You are experiencing it right now.

You're not being terribly clear (like someoneX, I suspect). What
exactly is it that is immaterial in this case, or that we should
conclude is immaterial? The experience of consciousness?

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