(August 14, 2016 at 1:19 pm)fdesilva Wrote: Now then can minds exist without events. We know that simultaneous events give rise to feeling in minds. We know from special relativity simultaneous events cannot give rise to anything physical or material. Therefore, feelings cannot be physical or material. Now as feelings are a part of minds we must conclude minds are not physical.
Simultaneous events give rise to feelings? What does that even mean? I think you're developing a word salad. Feelings are caused by physical and mental events. In space, physical things can cause reactions in other physical things. Therefore it's possible that feelings are caused by other physical things, and therefore mental events may be physical events.
(August 14, 2016 at 1:19 pm)fdesilva Wrote: Now can the mind exist without feelings OR does feelings create the mind, that is one and the same as the mind?
If feeling create the mind then as feelings are created by events then space, time and matter which we have concluded is the same as events, must also have feeling and thus be one and the same as a mind.
If feelings create the mind? What if physical events cause the mind? Then physical events and mind must be one and the same? This is nothing but baseless speculation. Feelings do not create the mind, feelings are part of the mind. Being part of the mind, their substance does not dictate the substance of mind.
(August 14, 2016 at 1:19 pm)fdesilva Wrote: Thus we would need to conclude a rock has a mind or is part of a mind to the same extent that my brain is a mind or is part of a mind.
I don't see where this comes from. Is English your first language?
(August 14, 2016 at 1:19 pm)fdesilva Wrote: Now if a mind can exist without feeling then we also know that the mind can create events. (e.g throw a rock, move a finger)
This needs no explanation if the mind is physical. We've already noted that physical causes can give rise to physical effects.
(August 14, 2016 at 1:19 pm)fdesilva Wrote: So then given that the mind can create events then the big bang (The Event) could have originated from The Mind in order to evoke feelings in other minds.
The mind can create some events. That doesn't imply that mind can create any event. Again, if the mind is physical, the events caused must be physical, not 'magic'.
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