RE: Mind is the brain?
March 21, 2016 at 3:19 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2016 at 3:23 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 20, 2016 at 4:38 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 19, 2016 at 10:25 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Let's cut to the chase: How much convergent evidence would you require in order to reexamine your views?What views do you mean?
The acceptance of at least the possibility of duality, of course.
(March 20, 2016 at 4:38 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 19, 2016 at 10:25 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You keep simply waving away fact after fact in isolation, ignoring the fact that all the evidence points in the same direction.What do you think the facts are pointing at that I'm disagreeing with?
So what would be your threshold for evidence which would give you pause? Be honest.
I didn't say you were disagreeing with them; I said you were waving them away. The difference is that disagreement is rooted in reasonable argumentation -- but you're simply ignoring what is being put in front of you, except when you can take an isolated point out of context and "rebut" it. You've consistently ignored the fact that localized brain function pairs up with reported subjective experiences, meaning that those subjective reports may well be accurate. You've completely ignored the point put to you about the correlation between brain trauma and impaired mental functions.
I mean, if your only point is that we cannot know for sure what another human being is thinking, then surely we didn't need the thread highjacked for such a banal observation. If your only point is that we cannot know that other humans even think at all, then who are you talking to, and why? If you're the only percipient here, then this rather makes your posting masturbatory, don't you, ahem, think?