AS38: Debate with Blake Giunta, Part 2
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 5 June 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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I continue my debate with Blake Giunta. Can an immaterial mind even exist? Seems ridiculous to me, but let's see what Blake has to say about that! Then, I do a bit of a post-mortem on the debate, as well as discuss several listener comments. Thanks for all the feedback and participation! Blake's impressive website: http://treesearch.org/ … Continue reading AS38: Debate with Blake Giunta, Part 2
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello my amazing listeners welcome to Atheistically speaking episode 38 with |
| 0:36.7 | your host Thomas Smith okay we're gonna get to part two of my debate with Blake |
| 0:42.0 | Junta and then I will see you afterward for some analysis and various other things |
| 0:48.0 | various incendiary items. All right here you go here's the rest, well, let's try to get back on track here. |
| 0:54.3 | Um, what don't we jump into an argument? |
| 0:59.6 | Well, I still don't. |
| 1:00.7 | I mean, I reject the notion that God God is I still think of God in the pink |
| 1:05.0 | unicorn range and I don't consider myself having been convinced that the idea of |
| 1:10.8 | God is not in that sort of category of existence claims, just because you've proven that induction is difficult or something. |
| 1:20.0 | How do we determine which existence claim goes in which category? |
| 1:23.6 | What would be a principle for you? |
| 1:24.8 | Well, I think I was trying to answer that. |
| 1:26.8 | I don't think that nothing works out to be a neat and clean principle, |
| 1:31.0 | but I would say the reason that the unicorn is in a certain category and the |
| 1:37.0 | what was the middle was the middle one the particle I can't remember now what was the third one? |
| 1:41.6 | The third one was like the existence of an external world. |
| 1:44.6 | Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So the unicorn is different than the particle because we have plenty of, |
| 1:51.4 | it's just evidence based I mean the the unicorn we have a massive |
| 1:58.8 | inventory of the biology of you know know, every, not every, but many organisms throughout the history of the world. |
| 2:07.3 | We have tons of evidence that shows there, and also where are you talking about this pink |
| 2:11.8 | unicorn or invisible unicorn, I guess? Are you talking about this pink unicorn or invisible unicorn I guess? |
| 2:14.2 | Are you talking about it exists somewhere on the earth? |
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