Questions of Truth and Quantum Theory (Religion)

by Mark , Monday, March 09, 2009, 23:57 (5532 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Mark also says: "/// there is no conceivable means to get from the physical to the personal." But our physical and personal natures are very closely related, and scientific study (e.g. in neurology) is finding out the relationships in more detail every day. - Relationships in the sense of correlations, yes. But absolutely nothing in the way of explanation of how the physical produces the personal. Physical science deals with time, distance, mass, energy etc. How can any theory expressed in these terms ever reach a description of the category of personal experience? This is the hard problem. If physical science is what everything is ultimately reduced to, then there is nothing in this world that cannot ultimately be expressed by such science. Yet there is a fundamental difference between what physical science talks about and, for example, my experience of listening to music, smelling flowers, thinking etc. Do you not see this, George? What about you David and dhw? Isn't it obvious that there is a gulf?