You're begging the question, because we're debating whether or not conscious experience is physical.
Yes. I used the word 'seems' hoping you'd get the point that we shouldn't assume our respective positions going in, but rather try to present 'arguments' and evidence to support our positions.
Scientific progress has been a steady dismantling of presumptions of non-scientific phenomena where those phenomena met the scientific pattern of reduction. Scientific research rests on a certain type of reduction; it's not an all-encompassing epistemic approach to all of reality.
Yes. I used the word 'seems' hoping you'd get the point that we shouldn't assume our respective positions going in, but rather try to present 'arguments' and evidence to support our positions.
Scientific progress has been a steady dismantling of presumptions of non-scientific phenomena where those phenomena met the scientific pattern of reduction. Scientific research rests on a certain type of reduction; it's not an all-encompassing epistemic approach to all of reality.
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