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Mind = Brain?

Poll: Do you believe the mind is contained entirely within the brain?
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Mind = Brain?
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 21, 2009 at 4:49 pm
<dead and burried mode>perfected over time with additional input
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 21, 2009 at 5:00 pm
<dug up from the grave and recycled as biofuel mode>hahaha....fr0d0, tha's actually funny
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 21, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Debating you is like living through a teen movie Rabbit. And you're the airhead cheerleader.
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 21, 2009 at 6:08 pm
(December 21, 2009 at 5:41 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Debating you is like living through a teen movie Rabbit. And you're the airhead cheerleader.
Have you begun debating?! You should have warned me. It vaguely sounds a bit more interesting than your mainly oneliner activity here.

But since you're such a sport I've taken some drastic measures in my signature to commemorate all christians in the world.
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 21, 2009 at 7:18 pm (This post was last modified: December 21, 2009 at 7:19 pm by fr0d0.)
Well I was being generous Rabbit. Likewise your pointless meanderings might be better suited to the ether of your existential wanderings.

I noticed the sig change. Very droll. My hope for you is that one day you'll acquire a sense of humor. Until then, drive safely my friend.
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 21, 2009 at 7:33 pm
(December 21, 2009 at 7:18 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Well I was being generous Rabbit.
Well, you're a christian are you not? Your boss is telling you to be generous. Not really an act of your free will, so you're excused.

fr0d0]Likewise your pointless meanderings might be better suited to the ether of your existential wanderings.[/quote]
This seems the most clear language that youve shown capable of since long. Probably enough to keep many generations of theologians in the dark for centuries.

[quote='fr0d0 Wrote:I noticed the sig change. Very droll. My hope for you is that one day you'll acquire a sense of humor. Until then, drive safely my friend.
A sense of humour is not as bad as it sounds. Acquiring a forum addiction and living in the web analogon of gutter is the real threat. You keep on trucking, buddy.
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 22, 2009 at 11:22 am
Purple Rabbit,

Could you please quote where I ever actually gave the Argument From Ignorance. I have just said that I (as in I personally at least) don't believe because I know of no evidence. That isn't the argument from ignorance. that's sensible.

(December 21, 2009 at 9:55 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Do you agree that in formal reasoning absence of evidence does not add up to any particular truth statement.

Of course.

When did I indicate otherwise? You always seem to be mixing up the fact I do not believe because I at least currently believe I at least currently know of no evidence, which isn't argument from ignorance, with if I would not believe if I refused to acknowledge even the possibility of some evidence coming to my attention, which of course is argument from ignorance.

To be very clear now... I'm agnostic about absolutely everything, so even if I accidentally seemed to be claiming to absolutely know something is or isn't so, I am not.

I cannot know, but I can't know that either (I think).

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December 22, 2009 at 12:05 pm (This post was last modified: December 22, 2009 at 12:33 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
(December 22, 2009 at 11:22 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:
(December 21, 2009 at 9:55 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Do you agree that in formal reasoning absence of evidence does not add up to any particular truth statement.

Of course.
That suffices. You did not make explicit use of the AaI.
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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 22, 2009 at 2:27 pm
What is the AaI? (And yes, I've already googled it but without satisfaction).

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RE: Mind = Brain?
December 22, 2009 at 2:32 pm
My guess would be Argumentum Ad Ignoratium?
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