TheMadFool

Aren't they the same thing?

Science is part of the Methodist approach to the problem - answering the second question first i.e. developing a criterion for truth/knowledge. This i...

It looks like the answer to your question is implicit in your question. I understand that the view implied in the question is universal and not peculi...

The scientific method works like this: 1. Formulate Hypothesis H 2. If H (is true) then predictions X, Y, Z 3. If predictions X, Y, Z are observed the...

The nonmathematical (unquantifiable) nature of mind is the proof. 1. All physical things are quantifiable (mathematical) things Ergo, 2. All non-quant...

Perhaps this is where you go wrong. To think "it is futile to consult a doctor is clearly wrong" is to deny the existence of fate and amounts to rejec...

Good point but that's presupposing physicalism.

First off, my post was a misstep. I thought physicalism implied that mind, itself, must be material. It doesn't actually - the mind is just the functi...

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Yes, but duration alone isn't a physical property.

Duration/time is not a legitimate physical property. Physical Properties

If he concluded from these investigations that past lives are something real, then he's working under the rubric of the theory of reincarnation.

The spiritual comes much later but do go on... :chin:

I think you're confusing thoughts with feelings.

So, you concede that the leg of a lamb and a soul are not the same - the former decays beginning at death while the latter doesn't. I gave you the gen...

I don't think showing Stevenson faked his data serves to falsify the theory of reincarnation; all that we can do with it is show his study is unreliab...

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Interesting but don't forget that light has other measurable physical properties like wavelength, frequency, intensity, pressure, etc. but thoughts do...

Please read up on the scientific method.

But I can safely infer that if something isn't mass quantifiable, it can't be material.

Ok. If reincarnation is true then we expect people to have verifiable memories of past lives. A scientific theory must be falsifiable or it becomes a ...

Sorry. Lost track of what I was saying. Thanks. :up:

Whatever the truth about Satan, in some ways, he's the only one who stands between us and moral chaos - it appears that the pain from the stick is a b...

Yes but that's what I've been saying all along :chin:

Well, that's the point. It can't be tested.

Being that peobability is defined as = (number of outcomes in the event space (E)/number of outcomes in the sample space (S)), it follows that the cal...

I don't wish to go that far. All I'm interested in is showing that a theory of "something" that retains memories of its past existence and gets transf...

You're going to let a 5 year period in American history change your mind about America? :chin: That's like judging Wittgenstein because he beat a pupi...

There are such things as obligate scavengers - creatures that don't kill but eat meat (dead carcasses). The present debate on meat eating turns on the...

@"schopenhauer1" Sorry for the barrage of posts but the matter is just too interesting (and also confusing). What defines "who we are now" but the cir...

@"schopenhauer1" Another example of two very different people hitting on the same idea is Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - both discovered...

String theory! - the unfalsifiable theory. I thought the unfalsifiability in this case is due to string theory not making any observable predictions a...

A leg of a lamb, most definitely, doesn't survive death - it decays or, if consumed, is digested, a process that destroys the leg.

Yes. The defining element of the person Gregor Mendel (genetics) was duplicated in Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. What do you make of that? :chin: Do...

A soul = something that 1)survives death and 2) transmigrates into another body What's incoherent/wrong with the above?

Why? :chin:

Why? :chin:

From where I stand, a person is the sum total of his/her thoughts and actions but, as seems to be the case, there is no necessary connection between t...

:up: Any references? Thanks

Why do you think the idea of souls is unscientific? If there are cases where a person has verifiable memories of being someone else before s/he was bo...

The soul seems like a good candidate for reincarnation - that immaterial substance that, like a rolling drop of water gathers sawdust, collects memori...

As I mentioned in my reply to another member, having memories, even well-verified ones, is not sufficient to establish the truth of reincarnation beca...

Here's where the meat of the issue is: "it certainly appears non-physical".

Agreed but I appeal that philosphers be given some slack in what they do. You never know when a crazy idea can become a treasure trove of hidden wisdo...

Well, look at it this way: what makes you you is a set of thoughts and actions and the fact of the matter is someone else could've written the Tractus...

I was made to believe that philosophy is, essentially, about areas where humanity is utterly unsure of itself - philosophers typically being the adven...

Ok :up:

Quantity is secondary to physicality. First there must exist something physical and quantity follows.

:smile: You're barking up the wrong tree.