RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 16, 2012 at 8:44 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2012 at 9:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
"Mental" but separate from the brain would be the other half, in this case. I'm wondering why you think that these are somehow different things, this isn't a position that one can reach by evidentiary means, as that leads us to mind as effect. You seem to be invoking the dues ex machina, I'm wondering why you feel the need to do this, since we have a pretty good idea of how all of this "mental" stuff is accomplished (even though we don't have a complete picture, of course). It's a bit of manouvering to state that ideas or concepts are not material, as this is exactly what we understand them to be, our way of interpreting and communicating electro-chemical signals which are very much material, and can be pointed to (scans, chemical analysis), quantified (cognitive testing in addition to scans and analysis), tampered with (psychoactive drugs), or entirely removed (trauma, intentional or unintentional).
How do you propose that this separate "mental" entity interfaces with the brain? Where is it, where does it come from from, and what can it do? What would it look like if someone had a functioning brain but not a functioning "mental entity"?
How do you propose that this separate "mental" entity interfaces with the brain? Where is it, where does it come from from, and what can it do? What would it look like if someone had a functioning brain but not a functioning "mental entity"?
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