I’m a materialist too, but that doesn’t mean that your subjective experience necessarily needs to line up with your biological body. For example thinking definitely happens in the brain, but that doesn’t mean your subjective experience of thinking has to happen inside the head.
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Replying to @ChasingMyself @chaosprime
I strongly disagree that thinking happens in the brain. The rest of your body has a nervous system too. Brain is involved at a core level, but it's not the only part that thinks and perhaps some thinking bypasses the brain entirely.
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i strongly agree! if i seemed to suggest thinking was all in the brain, well...communicating about this stuff accurately can be difficult. often what comes out is a fossil of some old memory, despite a new understanding behind it
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I think I was the one who introduced that, and I meant it to be an example of a pet peeve that I have with some common contemplative and materialist viewpoints.
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It cuts both ways: materialists think that the physical structure of the body implies that our subjective experience necessarily needs to match up with the biology(e.g. we should subjectively feel like we’re seeing stuff with our sense of where our eyes).
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And then the contemplatives feel like they need to look around for scientific proof for cognition being distributed through the body, the pineal gland shooting DMT at us, etc.
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It just seems like a waste to me since the implication of neuroscience is already quite clearly in favor of endorsing the contemplatives’ interpretations of subjective experience without needing to stretch at all.
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definitely. i suppose i'm in favor of admitting that, while reality is all material, there are some things the scientific method 1) has not accessed, but could and 2) cannot access
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Replying to @no__elle_ @ChasingMyself and
wanna clarify for my own understanding: are you describing a distinction between materialism and empiricism, or something other than that?
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Replying to @nuanceexists @ChasingMyself and
i may be using the wrong words here srry
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between materialism and body/spirit substance dualism, i think is the right cut
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