fifth dimension – Uncommon Descent

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New Scientist welcomes us to the fifth dimension

In pop science media, the End of All Things is the heat death of the universe, but some opt for stranger fates instead.

bornagain77 JVL: "Plus there are those annoying stones I keep stubbing my toe on." That subjective conscious experience of pain, i.e.... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
PyrrhoManiac1 . Materialism asserts that the liver is nothing but an amalgamation of chemicals and that amalgamation of chemicals is incapable... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington PyrrhoManiac1 @ 8 Nope. You evaded the OP. Not surprising. The OP asserts that materialism cannot account for intentionality. You... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Chuck. at some point you will have to come up with a testable alternative Nope. If my goal is to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
chuckdarwin BA/6 Materialism is false whether or not some other proposition is true. However, at some point you will have to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
JVL Bornagain77: You see Sev, in order to even be able to differentiate beliefs that are real from beliefs that are... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Origenes Querius @50 Ori: In the video, it is claimed that large objects are not informationally isolated and therefore are in... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
relatd Ba77, "You see Sev, in order to differentiate beliefs that are real from beliefs that are illusory, you must first... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
bornagain77 Sev, you tried the “change the subject” trick. But the catastrophic epistemological failure inherent in your materialism, which Barry highlighted,... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Querius William J Murray @40, If the nature of reality is that it reflects back at you that which is the... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
Querius Origenes @36, However, no doubt you are aware, there are larger objects that show quantum effects and are not informationally... – L&FP, 65: So, you think you...
Origenes PM1 @8 Naturalists would insist that brains and livers have different biological functions: the function of the liver is to... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
AnimatedDust BA @7: Good advice. And he does it all the time. – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
relatd Andrew at 6, Sev wishes he was in the Planet of the Apes movie. – Claim: Language originated in hand gestures....
relatd PM1 at 8, Complex functional specified information is a description not an addition. The question is: How did that information... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
relatd Tgpeeler at 1, Intellectual degeneracy does not appear everywhere in the culture. If it did then nothing would get done. – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
PyrrhoManiac1 It's easy to define a view as being so absurd that no sane person would accept it. Naturalists can do... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Animated Dust, you fell for Sev's "change the subject" trick. Don't do that. – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Barry Arrington Seversky, Wrong. Your materialism fails because it is self-referentially incoherent. You insist that I need to prove something else is... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
AnimatedDust Sev @ 3: but for peer reviewed studies on NDEs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ There are many more, but you won't read them... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...
Origenes Barry's argument from intentionality (aboutness) is extremely challenging for materialism. The other day PM1 referred me to a paper by... – The Very Act of Affirming Materialism...