g_pepper comments on Is Spirituality Irrational? - Less Wrong
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And yet I know that I possess a subjective experience, and I suspect that you do to. Just because something does not currently lend itself to quantitative scientific study does not mean that it is not real.
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Note that much of the discussion of free will in this comments section has had nothing to do with souls or dualist free will; e.g. compatibilism has nothing to do with souls or dualism.
(Edited) That's true, but it doesn't necessarily contradict what I said. Subjective experience is real - we all have it. Being real, it can be studied. But I strongly expect that whatever the study produces won't e.g. let us tell if a non-human is conscious (has subjective experience) except by arbitrary definitions that ultimately rely on being-similar-to-humans.
That's true, which is why I specified dualist free will.