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An argument against materialism

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Let's assume all our experiences, decisions, and causation (EDC) are the buy product of the matter process. The question is why EDC is coherent always. Why things are the way they are like they are coherent and not incoherent.
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bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:34 pm Let's assume all our experiences, decisions, and causation (EDC) are the buy product of the matter process. The question is why EDC is coherent always. Why things are the way they are like they are coherent and not incoherent.
I think you need to flesh this argument out a bit more. There seems to be a background assumption that you're not sharing regarding what the connection between coherence and materialism would be, for one.
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Terrapin Station wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:41 pm
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:34 pm Let's assume all our experiences, decisions, and causation (EDC) are the buy product of the matter process. The question is why EDC is coherent always. Why things are the way they are like they are coherent and not incoherent.
I think you need to flesh this argument out a bit more. There seems to be a background assumption that you're not sharing regarding what the connection between coherence and materialism would be, for one.
I think we can agree that there are two components here: 1) Matter and 2) conscious phenomena so-called EDC. Matter does its job based on a set of laws so it is coherent. In reality, there is no need for consciousness since matter does its job blindly. But let accept that consciousness can emerge. The question is that why matter and EDC are always coherent. Let me give you an example: Supposed that you live in a universe that your conscious experience is any possible thing unrelated to what is going on under conscious reality, matter reality. Like when you experience chaos while you are doing any proper thing that a human being can properly do. Why EDC corresponds to the reality of matter?
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bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:01 pm I think we can agree that there are two components here: 1) Matter and 2) conscious phenomena so-called EDC. Matter does its job based on a set of laws so it is coherent.
So first, do you realize that there are people who are not realists on physical laws (yet who still believe that there's an external world of matter, etc.)?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:25 pm
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:01 pm I think we can agree that there are two components here: 1) Matter and 2) conscious phenomena so-called EDC. Matter does its job based on a set of laws so it is coherent.
So first, do you realize that there are people who are not realists on physical laws (yet who still believe that there's an external world of matter, etc.)?
I am an anti-realist on physical laws when it comes to mind but a realist one when it comes to matter. Matter always does the same job (an apple in the same initial situation always falls the same way). We couldn't depend on the matter if that was not the case.
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bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 10:27 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:25 pm
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:01 pm I think we can agree that there are two components here: 1) Matter and 2) conscious phenomena so-called EDC. Matter does its job based on a set of laws so it is coherent.
So first, do you realize that there are people who are not realists on physical laws (yet who still believe that there's an external world of matter, etc.)?
I am an anti-realist on physical laws when it comes to mind but a realist one when it comes to matter. Matter always does the same job (an apple in the same initial situation always falls the same way). We couldn't depend on the matter if that was not the case.
You're not really addressing what I asked you. I didn't ask your personal view. I asked if you're aware that there are people who are not realists on physical laws. Are you?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 12:30 am
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 10:27 pm
Terrapin Station wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 9:25 pm

So first, do you realize that there are people who are not realists on physical laws (yet who still believe that there's an external world of matter, etc.)?
I am an anti-realist on physical laws when it comes to mind but a realist one when it comes to matter. Matter always does the same job (an apple in the same initial situation always falls the same way). We couldn't depend on the matter if that was not the case.
You're not really addressing what I asked you. I didn't ask your personal view. I asked if you're aware that there are people who are not realists on physical laws. Are you?
Yes, they are. They are however wrong to the best of our knowledge.
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bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 12:56 am
Terrapin Station wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 12:30 am
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 10:27 pm
I am an anti-realist on physical laws when it comes to mind but a realist one when it comes to matter. Matter always does the same job (an apple in the same initial situation always falls the same way). We couldn't depend on the matter if that was not the case.
You're not really addressing what I asked you. I didn't ask your personal view. I asked if you're aware that there are people who are not realists on physical laws. Are you?
Yes, they are. They are however wrong to the best of our knowledge.
On your view, what are physical laws ontologically? Are they real abstracts that somehow arch over or that are that are somehow identically instantiated in particulars? Or something else (and what else, specifically)?
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Terrapin Station wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:40 am
bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 12:56 am
Terrapin Station wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 12:30 am

You're not really addressing what I asked you. I didn't ask your personal view. I asked if you're aware that there are people who are not realists on physical laws. Are you?
Yes, they are. They are however wrong to the best of our knowledge.
On your view, what are physical laws ontologically?
Physical laws do not ontologically exist. It is how matter behaves which can be formulated.
Terrapin Station wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:40 am Are they real abstracts that somehow arch over or that are that are somehow identically instantiated in particulars?
The laws of physics understood abstractly.
Terrapin Station wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:40 am Or something else (and what else, specifically)?
I hope that things are clear.
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bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:34 pm Let's assume all our experiences, decisions, and causation (EDC) are the buy product of the matter process. The question is why EDC is coherent always. Why things are the way they are like they are coherent and not incoherent.
Things are coherent since they are material.
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Sculptor wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:35 pm
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:34 pm Let's assume all our experiences, decisions, and causation (EDC) are the buy product of the matter process. The question is why EDC is coherent always. Why things are the way they are like they are coherent and not incoherent.
Things are coherent since they are material.
I am talking about conscious phenomena EDC asking this question that why EDC correspond to what happens in material?
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bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:42 pm
Sculptor wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:35 pm
bahman wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 8:34 pm Let's assume all our experiences, decisions, and causation (EDC) are the buy product of the matter process. The question is why EDC is coherent always. Why things are the way they are like they are coherent and not incoherent.
Things are coherent since they are material.
I am talking about conscious phenomena EDC asking this question that why EDC correspond to what happens in material?
So am I.
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Sculptor wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:31 pm
bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:42 pm
Sculptor wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:35 pm

Things are coherent since they are material.
I am talking about conscious phenomena EDC asking this question that why EDC correspond to what happens in material?
So am I.
So you agree with the existence of something which dictates how reality should look like this, the so-called mind.
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bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 9:02 pm
Sculptor wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:31 pm
bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:42 pm
I am talking about conscious phenomena EDC asking this question that why EDC correspond to what happens in material?
So am I.
So you agree with the existence of something which dictates how reality should look like this, the so-called mind.
No, that is not what is meant by "mind" nor do I think that such a thing, call it what you will, could approach what anything "should" look like.
Reality is what it is. How could evolution produce a thing which could "dictate what a thing should"look like?vWho is to judge the should?
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bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 9:02 pm
Sculptor wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 8:31 pm
bahman wrote: Thu May 06, 2021 7:42 pm
I am talking about conscious phenomena EDC asking this question that why EDC correspond to what happens in material?
So am I.
So you agree with the existence of something which dictates how reality should look like this, the so-called mind.
No, that is not what is meant by "mind" nor do I think that such a thing, call it what you will, could approach what anything "should" look like.
Reality is what it is. How could evolution produce a thing which could "dictate what a thing should"look like?vWho is to judge the should?
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