Post by shuaibaljashamy on May 16, 2015 22:02:47 GMT
2. What is eliminative materialism?
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Eliminative materialism is complicated subject where when one phenomenon or a fact that cannot be proved through the work of mathematics, then one must turn to physics, the biology, then psychology, and sociology, if one cannot reach a result after all of these and all of these do not answer the question then one must say that god did it. Throughout history there have been incidents where they would blame it on superstition. In the video, Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor by Neural Surfer, it was shown to its audience multiple incidents where this would happen but then would be resolved by the growth of science and humans understanding it better. One example is our nervous system. In the past it was believed our muscles were pulled around by tiny ghost that were circulated in our body but as science developed we then started to talk about the nervous system. Another example that I have read of is in the past it was believed that a substance call phlogiston was in wood and iron and that is why the wood would burn and the iron would rust, however better science proved that it was only oxygen that rusting the iron and helping burn the wood. A third example can be taken out of the same video, this is when thunder was related to Thor the Thunder God but as science got better and more sophisticated, we now talk of Electrical Magnetic Currents. In the next coming years science will develop even more and more questions will be answered. As a thought, there will always be questions that we cannot answer therefore we will have to say “god did it”.
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Eliminative materialism is complicated subject where when one phenomenon or a fact that cannot be proved through the work of mathematics, then one must turn to physics, the biology, then psychology, and sociology, if one cannot reach a result after all of these and all of these do not answer the question then one must say that god did it. Throughout history there have been incidents where they would blame it on superstition. In the video, Eliminative Materialism: The Death of Thor by Neural Surfer, it was shown to its audience multiple incidents where this would happen but then would be resolved by the growth of science and humans understanding it better. One example is our nervous system. In the past it was believed our muscles were pulled around by tiny ghost that were circulated in our body but as science developed we then started to talk about the nervous system. Another example that I have read of is in the past it was believed that a substance call phlogiston was in wood and iron and that is why the wood would burn and the iron would rust, however better science proved that it was only oxygen that rusting the iron and helping burn the wood. A third example can be taken out of the same video, this is when thunder was related to Thor the Thunder God but as science got better and more sophisticated, we now talk of Electrical Magnetic Currents. In the next coming years science will develop even more and more questions will be answered. As a thought, there will always be questions that we cannot answer therefore we will have to say “god did it”.