(June 7, 2015 at 8:56 am)Little Rik Wrote: So you do know......... that the mind is a function of the brain?The evidence is decades of research, much of which is discussed in both of Dave McRaney's books, which I have mentioned before. Scientists have mapped out most of the brain, and have learned that various parts of the mind work within specific areas of the brain. They know that damaging parts of the brain can have significant effects on the personality of people who suffer that damage. For example, they know that cutting the corpus callosum (which allow the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate) creates some odd behaviors directly linked to the fact that parts of the mind belong to areas of the brain.
And the evidence is?
This isn't all that new, either; some of this research is more than sixty years old. So there, that is the evidence. And there is a great deal of it, and it shows that the mind is a function of the brain. Your ignorance is a poor excuse in a world where Google and e-readers exist.
Little Rik Wrote:Sorry Ton but my analogy kill your believe.You are saying that one will survive the passing of the other. You offer no evidence for that. None. I am saying that it is reasonable to conclude that the mind dies with the brain, and I keep pointing to sources of evidence as support, and you ignore them. Your insistence on clinging to your delusion does not make it any less of a delusion, nor does it change reality.
Mind and brain are connected until death occur so it is OBVIOUS that one will affect the other.
Little Rik Wrote:What facts?I have pointed out the evidence a few times, now. You don't want to accept it, but your rejection of reality does not change reality.
You got to be dreaming if you think that you provided any facts.
Yours are none but guessing based on no evidence as i explained above.
I would point out yet again that you have not offered a shred of evidence for your own claims. Ignoring the evidence provided while offering none, then pretending to own the high ground, makes you look like either an idiot or a douchebag.
Little Rik Wrote:There is enough evidence to say that until death occur mind and brain are connected in such a way that when one is in trouble the other will suffer as well.In other words, you dismiss the obvious connection because it is inconvenient to your beliefs. You will accept one conclusion that can be drawn from the facts, then reject the other without any reason or explanation. I wonder if you're aware of how scared you sound or if the delusion is so deeply ingrained that you simply do not recognize the disconnect.
This doesn't mean that the mind is a function of the brain.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould