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Mick wrote:

Rumraket wrote:

Mick wrote:

Rumraket wrote:
How about "There is sufficient empirical evidence to justify believing in disembodied minds". I deny, you affirm?

Thomists believe that human beings are essentially bodied.

What does that even mean? As a christian, surely you believe in a soul and an afterlife?

Mick wrote:The whole disembodied mind thing is a Cartesian thing. Besides, that resolution puts a heavier burden on me than you. You don't need to argue that there are no disembodied minds, but just that we have no good reason to think there is. You'll just be responding to me rather than making a positive case of your own. It is easy to stand back and poke holes.

I'm sorry that you don't want to shoulder your burden of proof.

It means that the idea of disembodied minds like that in Ghost are simply not part of Thomist thought.

I will shoulder a burden of proof. The objection was that your burden is lighter, and that is typical of atheists here on RS.