Almost nobody admits that they are dualists. But if you believe that physics works in the absence of minds, and also believe that minds don't have a physical explanation, you are a dualist. Most people in our culture are.
@Plinz I see dualism as something like "...advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic." If you don't understand tech (how mind works), then might as well be magic (dualism). With resources we currently have we don't know how a worm with 302 neurons works. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm
@seekingyaga Magic is real and represents the interface to the software layers of the world though
@Plinz When I say I'm physicalist/materialist it doesn't mean that I only believe in the concrete world of what I can see. I'm open to magical ideas but think of them as artifacts of our crude signal-processing ability similar to (as a subset of?) our current understanding of physics.
@seekingyaga I think that magic is going to turn out to be compatible with physics and won't even require extensions of physics, but a better understanding of how multicellular organisms process information
@Plinz @seekingyaga I am surprised by this, but I understand the reasoning. I find it very counterintuitive. Are there good synonyms for "magic" in this context? Trying to orient here.
@LossFunxionLovr @Plinz @seekingyaga power of imagination that impacts physical reality
@DelPierr111 @Plinz @seekingyaga Physical reality is causally closed afaik.