RE: Proof Mind is Fundamental and Matter Doesn't Exist
October 1, 2015 at 5:41 am
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2015 at 5:44 am by ApeNotKillApe.)
(September 30, 2015 at 2:24 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: It maybe that to you it is like saying "red is an apple". "Ideas are not subject to gravity", is like saying pain is not subject to gravity. You are severing the link between Ideas (as concepts) and their natural foundation (in brain structures). This is a floating abstraction, you have built a castle in the air. I am not claiming that mind is definitively matter, I do not have enough knowledge on either the nature of the mind or matter to be definitive. But it does seem most likely to me that mind and mental states are built on brain and brain states. It is Idealism that asserts that mind is not matter and begs the question as well as confuses epistemic and ontological issues
No I am not questioning agency, but you and your mind. If you think a retreat to 'mind' is a proper response to the point I raised then you should not have identified "I think, therefore I am". You are clearly identifying yourself as having a mind, if the word "I" carries any meaning at all in that sentence. So I return to the question. Given your skeptical approach I see no reason why you can make the claim that YOUR mind exists. You have offered no reasoning as to why someone isn't merely projecting their experiences on to your consciousness, or running their experience and thought software on your conscious operating systems.
Because it is not inconsistent to say it.
Use an abstract to refute an abstract for being too abstract for discussion of abstract concepts. Interesting method.
