Ourcellves? (Identity)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 10, 2014, 06:11 (3879 days ago) @ romansh

David: I am a lumper. 
> David
> Romansh: Not by any understanding of the word or your position that I have.
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> Splitters parse things into is and is not
> Now a panentheist you come as close as can be to lumper but you won't cross into the lumped world of a pantheist. Where the the universe and god are one. For a panentheist god is in the physical world.-Not by the definition of panentheist I use. i believe God is within and without the universe, a recognized definition.
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> Romansh;Also from what I undestand you see the mind (consciousnees) as somehow separate from the physical world. You see yourself as having free will that is somehow independent of cause. Again from what I understand of your position. All three are classical dualist positions.-As a lumper I look at the whole function of the brain. i certainly understand how the cells and synapes work, but they are bits of reductionist materialism and don't ever tell us about the structure and results of the function of the whole. You impress me as a splitter, worried about each individual cell which tells yu very little about the whole.