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Re: The Mind-Body Problem

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2025 11:21 am
by FairBlueLove
PorcelainLark wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 6:34 am I don't know what it actually means for something to cause another thing, so I reject determinism.
What do you mean here? Can you please expand on that?

Re: The Mind-Body Problem

Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2025 5:07 pm
by PorcelainLark
FairBlueLove wrote: Sun Aug 31, 2025 11:21 am What do you mean here? Can you please expand on that?
Something happens after something else; some of these correlations are tighter than others, but on what basis can you make a categorical judgement that the correlation is really "causal"? Causality is speculative, all we know is that things are happening sequentially, not that they are happening out of some necessity. That doesn't mean humans are necessarily "freer" than anything else, or that laws of physics are mutable; just that we don't know correlations are necessary.

If you're interested in the topic, I recommend looking into David Hume and the problem of induction, and Ernst Mach's empirio-criticism.