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
for me, materialism is a correct conclusion reached through empiricism. i think there are pragmatic limits on both philosophical and practical systems, and the philosophy comes after, not before the data
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hmmm! thank you for explaining!!
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i'm neither a materialist nor an idealist, so i get Very Confused
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good job selling your cleverness and buying bewilderment!
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thank you god bless
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