RE: Mind is the brain?
March 19, 2016 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2016 at 11:58 am by Brian37.)
(March 19, 2016 at 11:15 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 18, 2016 at 9:10 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Your problem is that mental activity -- i.e., mind -- has been observed, via MRI experiments which, uh, correlate areas of the brain with specific cognitive processes.
As to value of answering "philosophical" questions about things which aren't objectively observable, if you want to count the angels dancing on the head of a pin, go right ahead. You will still need to convince me, and no doubt others, of the value of your obscure musings.
Brain activity is measured with MRI experiments. Mind is not. If you equate the two, then the question has been officially begged.
That is like saying the number 1 is separate from the 1 apple on the table. No, there is just the apple. Our thoughts are the abstraction that arises out of the material process. You really are nothing more than your brain in motion.
"Mind" is the number 1 and the brain is the apple. "Mind" is how we describe what we observe when we communicate with others.
I get tired of even atheists trying to think there is more to life than than this. Psychology, psychiatry, evolutionary biology, neurology an modern medical tools are what explain how our brain works and how humans behave.
"Mind" is only a an abstract word that describes what we observe when others communicate with us.
Like "That car is going 55 miles an hour" isn't describing the physical car, but the car in motion.