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Substance Dualism
OP - October 08, 2012, 01:18 PM

Another great video by QualiaSoup. Always worthy of their own thread.

Substance Dualism (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4PW35-Y00

Examining the view that mind and body are separate substances. Part 2 available soon.

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Reply #1 - October 08, 2012, 03:05 PM

Lol I thought of making a thread yesterday

So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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Reply #2 - October 08, 2012, 06:59 PM

(Part 2 of 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTCK8ZluEc

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Reply #3 - October 11, 2012, 08:51 PM

I watched both videos. Pretty logical and detailed in their debunking.

Substance Dualism is nothing more than superstition and wishful thinking.

After Darwin destroyed the idea that life was created by God the next biggest blow to the monotheistic religions is the study of neuroscience and how it shows that the idea of a soul is bunk because the brain is what controls the chemical and biological processes that make up our personaility.

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Reply #4 - October 11, 2012, 08:52 PM

I think we can confidently say that religion as we know it today will be non existent within the next 100 years.

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Reply #5 - October 11, 2012, 08:58 PM

There will probably still be Muslims in the future claiming that water on Mars was already in the Quran, or life on Europa, or interstellar travel, or terraforming, or advanced technology and renewable energy we have not even dreamed of yet.

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Reply #6 - October 11, 2012, 09:06 PM

^

Well i think that in a 100 years the muslims will probably be like most modern day christians. u know the Christians who only read the bible for the good bits and take anything that is bad or scientifically inaccurate as a metaphor (Like they do with evolution).

They live their lives just the same as we atheists, skeptics and humanists do.

That's basically a world without religion in my opinion.

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Reply #7 - October 11, 2012, 09:10 PM

Another simple debunking from another one of my fave YouTube philosophers, SisyphusRedeemed

Aborting Mind-Body Dualism (Part 1: A Primer on Mind-Body Dualism)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luRqU7e_gEw

I say YouTube philosopher, but he's actually a professional philosopher in the real world, lectures and classes and stuff.

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