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I don't really think that you're cogent here; it seems like you just wanted to say things which stand in opposition. While it's true that there's no empirical evidence within humans for the question of p-zombies, Occam's Razor neatly shows that the world without souls is the simpler one; both worlds look just like ours, but one of them requires all of these additional unfalsifiable unverifiable claims about souls and consciousness and inner experiences and etc. The Dodo Bird's strength comes from the multitude of different models of therapy which have existed over the decades. We know, from history, that the memes of psychotherapists leaked out into popular culture and slowly altered how we talk about thinking. Nonetheless people are more neurotic (more diagnosed with mental disorders) than ever before! So the memes of psychotherapy do not on their own decrease mental disorders. People will look back on our current decade and think how silly we were to focus on "medications", "hormones", "chemical imbalances", "neurotransmitters", etc. just like we now think it's silly to focus on "repressed memories", "dream interpretation", "hysteria", "oedipal urges", etc. Humans cannot imagine anything completely novel. Every thought which a human ever has is unoriginal and hopelessly tied to the human experience. This is known as the anthropic bias and has been known about for millennia. If you believe in souls, you have an uphill battle in terms of evidence, including here. Please stop believing in souls. There's no evidence for it and it turns your arguments to mush. |