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To: GourmetDan
You can wish that away into unfalsifiability as much as you like. It doesn't change the fact that people making different decisions based on the same facts shows the supernatural, non-determinant basis of the mind.

Fine. Design an experiment in which there there can be no impact from past or present experience.

781 posted on 08/21/2008 1:40:07 PM PDT by onewhowatches
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To: onewhowatches
"Fine. Design an experiment in which there there can be no impact from past or present experience."

I did. And it works fine. Identical facts will produce different outcomes by people in the experiment showing the supernatural origin of the mind.

You are the one who said that "Experiences differs from person to person and cannot be controlled for" and you will always assert that prior experiences caused the different outcomes. You are the one who asserts that there will always be an impact and that such an experiment cannot be performed. This is why your objection is unfalsifiable.

There's not anything wrong with the experiment. It can be performed and identical facts will produce different decisions as evidence of the supernatural nature of the mind. That much can be documented.

It is your assertion that 'experiences cannot be controlled for' and your assumption that they are the determining factor when making different decisions from the same facts that makes your objection unfalsifiable. It is impossible to defeat an objection that is unfalsifiable. Perhaps that's why you went there.

782 posted on 08/21/2008 4:06:22 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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