Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?

[emjay]

@mud. I'm not sure I can answer your previous post in five thousand words or less, figuratively if not literally speaking; it would be a long post. So since I'm currently sleep-deprived and playing a Mafia game that's taking up all my time and energy, do you mind if I wait until the game is over, or at least until I'm out of it and rested, before I reply? I'm enjoying our conversation but these sorts of posts take me hours to write, and on top of a mafia game, it's really hard work. So if you're willing to postpone continuation of this discussion for a week or so, that would be much appreciated But in the meantime, if you want to understand my perspective on mind/body/reality/neuroscience in detail... the thinking behind my first post in this thread among other things... then I'd recommend reading the "Seeing Red" thread in this, the Philosophy, forum. It was a very involved and thorough discussion - principally between me, bennyboy, Rhythm, Jormungandr, and ChatWooters - on these questions, with many multi-hour posts, and as far as I was concerned was an absolute goldmine of insight. And this discussion here with you feels pleasantly reminiscent of it

No worries, man. Threads tend to be like universes, in that a single topic slowly evolves into many, many different strains of thought. And since I'm the OP, like Yahweh I take it personally upon myself to respond to each member, which I admit, can sometimes be overwhelming.

No, I'm just bullshitting. But it really did take me like 2 hours to type out that reply yesterday, so I'm good with a break. Maybe we can try to focus on one or two of the core issues if or when we decide to resume it.

Cool, I'll see you in about a week then you enjoy u our break too

And yeah, when I come back to it I'll try and focus on the core issues and get my posts more concise (rather than for instance giving a point by point analysis of neuroscience as I see it... which is a guaranteed page filler ). It's just difficult because mind and brain are very highly correlated in my view of the world, so talking about one is essentially talking about the other. But I'll leave discussion of that till when we resume