(March 19, 2016 at 12:05 pm)bennyboy Wrote:Quote:"Mind" is only a an abstract word that describes what we observe when others communicate with us.No, it's totally not that. Mind is the experience of thoughts and perceptions.
Now you're just shifting the goalposts. Mind includes both conscious and subconscious activity. Is PTSD a fault in the mind, or is it a fault in the brain? We can identify PTSD by mental components of it as experienced by sufferers, and we can identify it with MEG scans. The gulf between what goes on in the mind and identifying it with what goes on in the brain is not so wide as you imagine. We can correlate specific mental artifacts of trauma with specific physical effects of trauma. Your point only applies if you restrict mind to an arbitrary part of mind which hasn't been mapped by a correlation with injury. (With one exception. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2...-in-brain/ ) With you it's all about qualia. Qualia aren't the beginning and ending of mind; there is a whole array of mental phenomenon that has been mapped. You just choose to ignore it in favor of your sacred cow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6j8rd093RI
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...nications/
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