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		manjushri on March 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind >Just because we don't know the laws yet, that doesn't mean that it's magic. This is a strawman often thrown up when the blind spots of science are pointed out. Magic is a fancy word for something that we have no provable explanation of. Asserting "mind is material" seems like a hubristic explanation of an imaginary thing.

jonbarker on March 18, 2018 [–]

It's also somewhat of a tautology because physicists don't really have a 'solid' understanding of what constitutes material. Pun intended.

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