The Case for Dualism (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Monday, November 01, 2010, 12:46 (5135 days ago) @ xeno6696

Matt continues to wrestle with Martin's case for dualism:
"His argument here isn't simple mathematics (such as 1 + 1 = 2), it's an argument that we can only distinguish between numbers of things by relation of one set of things to another set of things."-I don't want to spoil the fun, and of course I can only go by what you have told us about this book, but aren't you being led off the track? You have said that the whole thing is meant to be an attack on materialism, and in your post of 23 October at 21.54 you made it clear that in this chapter he is trying to prove Cartesian dualism, i.e. that "there is mind, and there is matter". He can faff around as much as he likes with his ones and twos, but there is no way that he or anyone can prove mathematically that consciousness and identity are not extensions of matter.