X-Message-Number: 17547
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:35:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Badger <>
Subject: Re: #17534: Calling all physicists  - need help!

Dave Pizer wrote:

For those of us who want to question mind/body dualism
and the possible survival of the mind (soul?)
surviving the death of the brain, we will need answers
to prevail over them.

Got any?
*******************

I think the answer from science is that dualists are
making extraordinary claims; namely, the notion that
some alleged non-material entity is operating the
physical body like some puppeteer.  It is not up to
science to prove that this is false, rather, it is up
the dualists to prove that it is true.

As always, extraordinary claims require extraordinary
evidence.

This will likely not satisfy dualists, but it's
fruitless to argue against their position until they
have a stronger position to argue against. 

Regardless, it's a huge leap to assume that because
two photons exhibit some unexplained phenomenon that
this is strong evidence for a dualistic reality.

JMHO,

Scott Badger

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