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174. The Argument From Consciousness: Kyle Alander vs Ben Watkins

Adherent Apologetics

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The Hard Problem of Matter Is Reducible

So the hard problem is basically it's an argument against reductionism. The point is that you cannot reduce your first person terms to the third person terms. Matter seems to be a real feature of the world that doesn't depend on our Subjective first person experience. So if we are to believe the story um given to us by Historians of scienceUm You know, Galileo have stripped away The first person experiences from our understandings of the natural world And so it's that very process of doing that that has allowed us to make as much progress as we have scientifically since the since the enlightenment. But there just is a solution to it like solipsism just doesn't be everything.

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