Douglas_Knight comments on Hypotheses For Dualism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 10 January 2010 05:15:42AM 1 point [-]

Do you put electrostatic action at a distance in the same basket as gravity?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 January 2010 07:34:53AM *  2 points [-]

It's mysterious spooky stuff to me, yes. But the important thing isn't whether or not I personally, or anybody else, now has a complete understanding of it. The important thing is that, for at least 300 years after its discovery, it was a deep mystery; but the people investigating it did not dismiss it as metaphysics.