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> it's whatever was in your head

That doesn't make anything "simple". Analysis operates on existing concepts, which means they're divisible. It's clear words are being thrown around without any real comprehension of them. This is a stubborn refusal to examine coarse and half-baked notions.

> If you want to discount what science has to say you need to meet it on its own turf and treat with the specifics.

Except this isn't a matter of science. These are metaphysical presuppositions that are being assumed and read into the interpretation of scientific results. So, if anything, this is a half-assed, unwitting dabbling in metaphysics and a failure to meet metaphysics on its own turf.

> whatever nonsense you wanted to say about "Cartesian dualism" [...] Descartes frankly brought nothing to the table

That's nice. But I haven't "handwaved-away" science. It is you who have handwaved-away any desire to understand the subject beyond a recitation of an intellectually superficial grasp of what's at stake. To say Descartes has nothing to do with any of this betrays serious ignorance.

See above [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44014069





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