[lbo-talk] Re: therapy vs drugs

[Chris Doss]

I am amused by your paradoxical argument. I work from the presumption that 
consciousness has a physical basis, mainly to avoid mystical or religious 
nonsense. Yet you dismiss this as an "argument based on faith." This is a 
bit like a Creationist dismissing evolution as a "religious belief."

How is what I stated an "argument based on faith?" An axiom is a presumed 
truth; it forms the basis of investigation, which may provide a reason for 
revising the original presumption. It's about as essential to scientific 
reasoning as one can get.

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The assumption is that spirits, souls, independent minds, Leibnizian monads, 
idealism, etc., etc., are all mystical or religious nonsense. There is no 
way to know if this is true. Therefore, it is an argument made on an 
ungrounded assumption, that is, an argument based on faith.

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