(2023-11-18, 12:37 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: But this is just the medium grade heresy of considering consciousness as maybe not being a epiphenomenon of material interactions of nerve cells. To the fundamentalist materialist members of the church of scientism the heresy of even hinting at the real existence of the spirit, soul and the afterlife is an extremely heinous hanging offense or at least deeming of a severe punishment.
You have no idea how bad it is on r/consciousness right now on Reddit. Tons of people basically accusing any non physicalist of being “afraid of death” “religious” or “wanting an afterlife”.
A lot of non physicalist theories have nothing to do with religion or afterlife. It’s gotten so obnoxious and toxic on there it’s impossible to have any discussion.