I get the feeling that we’ve been talking past each other. I took you as mixing levels in a confused way but you may have been trying to address what you took as someone else’s confusion.
I broadly agree with your last two comments and feel like you’ve somewhat misunderstood what I was trying to say. I think our views are more-or-less compatible but articulating them to the point of mutual understanding may be more effort than it’s worth.
It’s rather question begging to equate the real and the objective.
There’s no term for shopping centres in physics. You need to look at whether there is a way of reducing something, not whether there is a term for it.
I was trying to apply the intuitive meanings of choice and making a difference to determinism.
I have no idea what that means.
We don’t know how the mind is physical, so you are advising people to adopt a sort of faith.
Is physicalism a falsifiable claim? What would evidence against it look like?
I get the feeling that we’ve been talking past each other. I took you as mixing levels in a confused way but you may have been trying to address what you took as someone else’s confusion.
I broadly agree with your last two comments and feel like you’ve somewhat misunderstood what I was trying to say. I think our views are more-or-less compatible but articulating them to the point of mutual understanding may be more effort than it’s worth.