Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Remind Physicalists They're Physicalists - Less Wrong

18 Post author: lukeprog 15 August 2011 04:36AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 August 2011 11:38:47AM 20 points [-]

I think that 'with neuroscience' explanations, and brain scan images in particular, are more satisfying because they remind us we're physicalists.

I don't see how you're justified in thinking that. It's too detailed a hypothesis to locate using that data.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 15 August 2011 12:58:28PM 9 points [-]

An accusation of privileging a hypothesis will be more persuasive if you also point out other families of hypotheses that together still deserve the majority of the probability mass.