RE: The afterlife and the soul
January 7, 2016 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2016 at 3:27 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 7, 2016 at 2:31 pm)Vincent Wrote:(January 7, 2016 at 9:28 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Contrary to the claims of the OP, there is no proof that mechanistic brain functions actually produce quality and/or intentionally, as opposed to to say mediating those phenomena. At best, materialism can only offer a promissory note of future discovery based on intellectual precommitments.I'm not even sure what you're trying to say here. There has been no scientific reason to believe that brain functioning is not produced and regulated through material and natural processes.
People call them neural 'correlates' because, although there is a strong correlation between neural events and mental properties, no actual type-to-type causal relationship has been established, and there are serious challenges to ever doing so. I will give you 'regulated'. Anyone can see that. But I take issue with claiming that mental properties are 'produced' by physical brain functions.
