ryan
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If substance A can be formed into water, oil, and minds, you don't have 2 different substances in a beaker when you combine water and oil, unless you are equivocating the term substance to mean something other than what we are discussing (the fundamental substance).Since minds are physical, that statement isn't true.
You can create a universe that evolves according to some laws, and a mind that acts in certain ways, out of the same substance.Exactly what does your factory argument have to do with this?
In the quote, a God created the universe, and later attached minds to brains. Doesn't mean they are made of different substances- they would both be physical creations, just one is prepared using a certain method, and has certain characteristics, and another has other characteristics. They are later put together.
Of course it means they are made of different substances!!!! If you put substance A into a beaker with substance B, and there is no change in the amount of substance B, then substance A is clearly not substance B.
Why is this so hard for everyone to understand - what is going here!?!?!?
Substance A and substance B are analogous to a physical substance and a non-physical substance respectively.