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Originally Posted by David Yes, but as I have pointed out before, in the past, science has repeatedly expanded its scope of acceptable explanations - fields, intrinsic probability, new properties of matter, ever more abstract mathematical formulations, etc. It is only in this one area that any expansion seems off limits because somehow the dominant view has become that because matter at ordinary temperatures and pressures is thought to be well understood at the physical level, no further fundamental change is possible! |
Who says it's off limits to come up with a naturalistic explanation of psi? No one. What they say is that they don't think the evidence for psi is compelling in the first place.
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Even Roger Penrose got a lot of flak for suggesting that new physics might be needed to explain consciousness - and he never once mentioned ? in his two main books!
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If you can't stand the flak, get out of the science.
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What is so incredible to me, is that people can be so dogmatic without being able to offer an adequate explanation of their own!
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David, you're just as dogmatic in your insistence that consciousness can't be brain function, and you have no explanation at all. Just because you're not going with the status quo doesn't mean that you're open-minded.
~~ Paul