(2017-11-07, 01:38 AM)malf Wrote: Sorry, I just don't see the ad hom here.What’s the limit though? Where is the line drawn where people say ‘That’s not physical, that’s non physical?’. When you don’t define a limit to what you can define as physical, physicalism is just always bound to be correct and utterly useless at the same time. You’re never wrong, you just define something as physical and fold it into your metaphysic. It’s why materialism was actually a proper, yet failed metaphysic and physicalism is so utterly useless as a metaphysic that it’s also failed.
All of his challenges appear to be the same ones we pull apart on here, and previously at the other place. I didn't see any new ones but may have had my attention diverted whilst I was viewing.
The fact that he interprets QM to be outside of the material realm might be a clue that he is setting up an easy target to shoot down. I simply don't encounter physicalists who deny QM exists.
Materialism as a religion
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