RE: Mind is the brain?
March 18, 2016 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 5:53 pm by little_monkey.)
(March 18, 2016 at 2:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 18, 2016 at 11:34 am)little_monkey Wrote: That's mumbo-jumbo, and you know it. There is no law in nature that says I can't correlate. The question is what does the correlation show? And that leads to the next point below that I've made before...You can correlate two observable properties. Mind is not observable.
And you've decided that mind isn't observable!? Who are you? God to make that decision for all of humanity??
So while you disparage that I claim that mind is something that can be measured, you make the presumptuous assumption from the get go that mind isn't observable, therefore cannot be studied. But there are many things in science that are not observable - electrons to name one out of hundreds. So in other words, you are closing any discussion by saying, "Never mind guys, you're wasting your time. Mind cannot be observed in any way, shape or form." Wow.
What will you say if androids become self-aware, that God did it?? Or if we discover that there are thousands of aliens throughout the galaxy who are self-aware, that God did that too??
Quote:It isn't open to science because you've closed your mind to that. Fortunately, thousands of scientists don't agree with you.Quote: You can't answer that point because it defeats your argument. Scientific experiments points in one direction, MIND = BRAIN ACTIVITIES, but you refuse to accept that reality.All caps don't add truth. Nor has science proven itself up to the task of answering philosophical questions about things which aren't objectively observable. In short, you haven't established that you are even experimenting on what you say you're experimenting on.
Quote:What if someone decided that since God can't be directly observed, he would take what everyone "knows" is God-- feelings of inspiration-- as a correlate. Then every time someone said they felt inspired, he'd claim he was studying the Lord. Dumb right? Because God can't be shown even to exist, isn't it?
But inadvertently that's what you're claiming: Someone says that God is unobservable (dumb, according to you); you say mind is unobservable (that's also dump, according to me ).