Within this discussion, I’ve tried to consistently use “magic” as meaning “not physics or logic”. Essentially, things that, given a perfect model of the (physical) universe that we live in, would be considered impossible or would go against all predictions for no cause that we can attribute to physics or logic or both.
So dualism is only one example, another could be intervention by the Lords of the Matrix (depending on how you draw boundaries for “universe that we live in”), and God or ontologically basic mental entities could be others.
So the assertion “we have something magical” is equivalent to “qualia is made of nonlogics” (although “nonlogics” is arguably still much more useful than “nonapples” as a conceptspace pointer).
I’m curious about your definition of “magical”. Is it the same as dualism)?
Within this discussion, I’ve tried to consistently use “magic” as meaning “not physics or logic”. Essentially, things that, given a perfect model of the (physical) universe that we live in, would be considered impossible or would go against all predictions for no cause that we can attribute to physics or logic or both.
So dualism is only one example, another could be intervention by the Lords of the Matrix (depending on how you draw boundaries for “universe that we live in”), and God or ontologically basic mental entities could be others.
So the assertion “we have something magical” is equivalent to “qualia is made of nonlogics” (although “nonlogics” is arguably still much more useful than “nonapples” as a conceptspace pointer).
Technically qualia is “non-physics”. Since if a human with a brain that does thinking is physics + logic, qualia is just the logic given the physics.
Errh, yes. Thank you. I think “nonlogics” is a decent fix, in light of this.