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He's saying, among many other things, that physicalism is common sense. I don't grant "common sense" any special access to reality, so he lost me right there. Occam's Razor, which is about simplicity, yes; common sense, no.
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But how can it be common sense when there is no way for one clump of matter to refer to another clump of matter...so how does your brain have thoughts about Paris?
It's actually when I realized the physicalist indoctrination that [I] was able to "let go" of the notion that somehow everything reduces to physics...and that is when my common sense allowed me to see the Truth that Physicalism is a fanatical faith demanding the impossible [of] its believers.
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Physicalism is a fanatical faith demanding the impossible [of] its believers.
Well said. Bravo.
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Basically he is saying that experience is an emergent property of biological entities, overlooking that a biological entity is an experience. Far more interesting than the video itself, is the exchange of comments that follows between the narrator and some proponents of idealism, wherein the flaws in his reasoning are seriously challenged..
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Dana, I like how you put that, brings it into view, like when the blank winter landscape suddenly reveals the snowy leopard.