Posted: Oct 07, 2010 11:35 pm
Paul Almond wrote:I don't have any problem with an extraspatial mind (in terms of coherence I mean), because I can imagine, for example, something going through state transitions, …
Extraspatiality entails immateriality, and that mental entities exist independently of any physical entities seems ontologically impossible to me.
"'Pure spirit' is a pure stupidity: when we discount the nervous system and the senses, the 'mortal shroud', we miscount—nothing more! …"
(Nietzsche, The Antichrist, §14)
Paul Almond wrote:
However, if the theist simply declares God's thinking to be atemporal, without anything put in there to replace "time as we know it", I would say this is incoherent.
So would I—and many theists.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/god-time