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NancyLebovitz comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 July 2012 02:32:42AM 1 point [-]

I'm pretty sure that the current theories aren't weird enough, but less sure that current theories need to be modified to include various things that people experience. However, it does seem to me that materialists are very quick to conclude that mental phenomena have straightforward physical explanations.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 July 2012 08:17:22PM -1 points [-]

May I remind you that scientists rescently created and indirectly observed the elementary particle responsible for mass?

The smallest mote of the thing that makes stuff have inertia. Has. Been. Indirectly. Observed.

What.