I sure don't earn a salary doing this either...I made a grand total of $2000 being a gradusate teaching asst. in Philosophy....and yeah, LH, you probably have a good point there--we DO like to have answers that we are comfy with...for whatever reason. And we like to SEE our point of view out there..*grin*

and, of course, I'd argue, as you know, that I have a suspicion that 'experience' is a combination of physical events...just as you 'feel' that they can be different. It may be incapable of proof either way...

It is interesting though, that under my own rules, if I state a hypothesis, someone might show me, using the laws I recognize, that I am wrong, and have to re-think it----whereas, someone who claims there are non-physical events and entities that cannot be tested, can never BE disproven, and can just state 'interesting' theories about reality forever.....it ain't fair, I tell you! Oughta be a durn law...*hmmmpppff*

well, we all get to air our ideas, hmmm? Not a bad deal, I guess...