The Brain=Mind Fallacy

[StatCrux]

It can, that's an option, in fact it's more consistent with materialism. the problem is that it destroys freewill, we basically become automatons, Daniel Dennet agrees, saying freewill is illusory.

So the fuck what?

Another dodge!

You "Thoughts are not material"

ME "so the fuck what"

YOU HAVE NOT IN THIS ENTIRE THREAD STATED YOUR END GOAL

WHAT IS YOUR POINT?

GET TO THE FUCKING POINT

My point is that there is a non-material aspect to human nature, which you have agreed with. (thoughts are not physical) How then can purely material explanations of reality explain existence?

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So you accept that we are more than a biological machine?

We are biological machines, but we are elevated in the fact that our brains have evolved. We have abstract thought and we are self aware.

I thought you said that we become biological machines upon brain death? That implies a change from one state upon brain death to another? now you say we are biological machines before brain death also, so what is the fundamental change? self awareness? does self awareness elevate us from a biological machine to what exactly?