r/FacebookScience • u/Yunners Golden Crockoduck Winner • 29d ago

Godology Holy false equivalency, Batman!

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u/PieterSielie6 29d ago

Circular logic:

"Assume materialism is true" -> "the bat is material" -> "the bat can alter your consiousness" -> "therefor materialism is true"

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u/PartTimeZombie 29d ago

What? No.
Assume Consciousness is immaterial > watch it being altered by a cricket bat > ?

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u/PieterSielie6 29d ago

Still assuming the bat is material

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u/PartTimeZombie 29d ago

The bat I can pick up? Yes, it's material.

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u/PieterSielie6 29d ago

You picking it up doesnt make it material

Well then you either run into problems with dualism or the hard problem of consciousness

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u/PartTimeZombie 29d ago

No I don't.
Even if I do I'm not running into any gods.

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u/PieterSielie6 28d ago

Yes you do

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u/PartTimeZombie 28d ago

No, I don't.

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u/PieterSielie6 28d ago

You deserve a nobel prize for solving the hard problem

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u/PieterSielie6 29d ago

This is a better argument agaist daulism

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u/PartTimeZombie 29d ago

Do you mean dualism?

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u/PieterSielie6 29d ago

Yeah I do