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Ep 8 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5, Part 1

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The Mind Body Problem

There are two kinds of real existing objects. Within that reality there is stuff made of atoms, the physical world. And then there's stuff that's not made of atoms,. There's nothing spiritual or spooky about the abstract world. But more profoundly, the abstract entities can have causal effects on thephysical world. Now how do they have causal effect on the physical world? Because the physical world is organized in patterns in such a way that the abstract entities are instantiated within that physical reality. The relationships between the abstract entity are represented within thePhysical world. O pose, that's the determinism argument against free will.

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