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Originally Posted by Open Mind Even if physicalists were right, this would mean the evolution of the brain must have found evolutionary advantages in making us feel we are functioning through a body and must have found advantages in creating common spiritual experiences? e.g. The Near Death Experience? |
Some of the things we experience could simply be accidents of evolution.
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Can a thought be evil in the physicalist's paradigm? According to the physicalist paradigm thoughts are assumed 100% private therefore only wrong if physically communicated or acted out? However if one accepts the evidence for telepathy, even to the weakest of degrees, can what one thinks of another person adversely affect them?
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What does the latter question have to do with physicalism specifically? If people can read our thoughts, then those thoughts can do psychological harm under any metaphysic.
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Do physicalists think Dean Radin's clip here is dangerous?
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I don't know about that, but the Global Oneness Project needs better servers. The clip won't play fast enough for the sound to be intelligible.
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Is believing matter creates the mind (physicalism) a less or more dangerous belief than the viewpoint that mind is not the same as the brain?
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I doubt we can answer this question.
~~ Paul