"There is no proof of any supernatural thing ever."
? Except you live, breath, walk and act in this universe as though you are literally an incarnation of something 'supernatural' aka 'more than a random bag of rocks'
Scientific Materialism has helped us push aside a lot of Magical Thinking about a lot of things (it was the wind, not a ghost, and there are no Elves in the forest with Gold) ... paradoxically we are not any closer to understanding the nature of ourselves i.e. 'life'
The concept 'life' doesn't have much meaning if it's just some bit of complex mechanics and I suggest even those positing just that don't even contemplate the implications.
We posit that the universe is made up of matter and energy, and everything behaves in accordance with a set of 'rules' because mostly that's what we observe, and beyond that, a lot of people are just thinking magically.
By definition, we may have ruled out the possibility for 'life' by our own, reductive and narrow metaphysical definition.
We've made a 'ruler' to measure the Universe that is just incapable of measuring many things, even those things happening right before our eyes, we trust the 'ruler' as 'truth' and that's that.
It'd be nice if we had some developments in metaphysical thought these days, we've been ignoring it for a while.
Many would argue that free will is non-materialistic (extra- or -supra natural), if we have no free will, then these HN comments are inevitable due to the laws of physics though, so no use arguing if it is materialistic since it’s inevitable :)
Trying the argument out on such a futile actions as HN comments isn't that telling.
There was a time when a convoluted bio-mechanical system traveled to the Moon and back. Could you do me a favor and re-run that line of thought on that? The Apollo was inevitable and so the biological elements of it should have done... What exactly?...
I'm honestly lost here, I don't ponder about non-materialistic free will anymore.
? Except you live, breath, walk and act in this universe as though you are literally an incarnation of something 'supernatural' aka 'more than a random bag of rocks'
Scientific Materialism has helped us push aside a lot of Magical Thinking about a lot of things (it was the wind, not a ghost, and there are no Elves in the forest with Gold) ... paradoxically we are not any closer to understanding the nature of ourselves i.e. 'life'
The concept 'life' doesn't have much meaning if it's just some bit of complex mechanics and I suggest even those positing just that don't even contemplate the implications.
We posit that the universe is made up of matter and energy, and everything behaves in accordance with a set of 'rules' because mostly that's what we observe, and beyond that, a lot of people are just thinking magically.
By definition, we may have ruled out the possibility for 'life' by our own, reductive and narrow metaphysical definition.
We've made a 'ruler' to measure the Universe that is just incapable of measuring many things, even those things happening right before our eyes, we trust the 'ruler' as 'truth' and that's that.
It'd be nice if we had some developments in metaphysical thought these days, we've been ignoring it for a while.