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| Topic: | Re:How are mental operations observed? |
| Posted by: | annou2 |
| Date/Time: | 2010/9/19 23:25:07 |
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If nothing else, the developments in physics show that things in this world have properties that were rejected by many scientists as even being possible.?For instance, some physicists now think there is evidence that some?things can indeed be in two places at once. a property formerly thought to be a characteristic of souls. Aristotle, for instance, thought that the soul was present in all parts of the body simultaneously.?Another old idea that has reappeared lately is the notion that there might be more worlds than this one. What seems to be happening (at least as this old philosopher sees it, at any rate), is that in order to accommodate the new scientific ideas. the concept of "matter" is being "dumbed up", so to speak.?But don't look for a definition of matter from the scientists -- at least not in the Oxford Dictionary of Science. &nbs p;"Matter" is left undefined there. Hmph.?If anyone has a curr ent scientific definition of it (one proposed by first-rate physical scientists), I'd like to know what it is.?Without one it makes little sense to reject what is contrasted with it and which used to be called "soul". Please, psychologists, don't be bound by the murky notions of matter of the physical scientists.?You might miss seeing half your subjects' reality. |