The psychophysical problem
Is the psychophysical problem really unsolvable?
And more broadly, what makes a question one that we can know for sure that no progress, whether scientific or philosophical, will bring about its solution?
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It is difficult to make such a determination. Today, to my understanding, there is not even a hint in such a direction. But it is not philosophically clear what can even be considered a solution. There is an influence of the spirit on the body and vice versa, that is a fact. Are we waiting for the discovery of the mechanism and a scientific description of it? That may come. After all, a physical explanation for this probably will not be found, since we are not talking about physical phenomena.
Leibovitz saw this as a paradox and I see it as a scientific problem.
I don't know of a general criterion. I think that there will be no solution that explains why the laws of nature are the way they are, for example. Since any such explanation would itself assume other laws of nature, and the bottom line would not be explained by virtue of being a bottom line. This is an example of a question that will probably not be solved scientifically.
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