I’m open to positions like property dualism. On the other hand, I’m against thin definitions of feelings (just combinations of atoms, at least where atoms only have physical properties) and some of the arguments given in the original post give reasons for not believing in this.
Wouldn’t neurologists only find magic if it has material affecting components? Magic that only interacts with different aspects of reality beside materia would not be so apparent.
The knowledge engine in our brain produces knowledge of that magic. That means that either that magic affects the knowledge engine, or the knowledge engine is magic.
We can care about feelings regardless of what they’re made of.
If feelings were made of more than atoms, I would expect neurologists to have found some evidence of magic in the brain.
I don’t deny that subjective experience exists, I just think it’s made of atoms.
Due to quantum physics, there is a conceivable experiment that tells whether two electrons are identical in all their properties.
I’m open to positions like property dualism. On the other hand, I’m against thin definitions of feelings (just combinations of atoms, at least where atoms only have physical properties) and some of the arguments given in the original post give reasons for not believing in this.
It might be helpful to distinguish “made from atoms” and “explicable in terms of atoms”.
Wouldn’t neurologists only find magic if it has material affecting components? Magic that only interacts with different aspects of reality beside materia would not be so apparent.
The knowledge engine in our brain produces knowledge of that magic. That means that either that magic affects the knowledge engine, or the knowledge engine is magic.