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Ep 103: Ask Me Anything #2

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The Refutation of Physicalism

Refutation of physicalism is simply that there really do exist abstract things in reality, and those can have causal effects in the world. A computer game is not a physical thing - it's something that can be printed on to a c d rom or down loaded into an officie somewhere. And so much of the explanations that exist out there in the world come down to more than just the physical events at the level of sub atomic particles and physical forces. Question two is similar along these lines, how laws of physics and mind are abstractions. So their different and certainly dfferent kinds of abstractions. Let's deal with mind first. We both admitted there is an algarythm

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