RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
August 19, 2016 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2016 at 10:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think we're going to have to just disagree on this one. I do think that scientific hypothesis, in this field, currently....have explanatory value. A Theory of Mind (in the scientific sense) will either emerge from the contenders or will not, and we'll just keep looking...but what we have moves those chains. It may not explain it all, it may even be wholly wrong, but it gives us a piece to work with.
You've been asking me what -allows- for mind, qualia, psychogony, psychology. Both of us, it seems...say brain, to one extent or another. I think that what we do know -could-, not necessarily does, but -could- explain what we desire to know. I appreciate that you wonder if there's more, or think that there must be more - in order to explain the phenomena we both agree exists and is real in a tangible and meaningful sense. An unknown, or barely known quantity or quality that might be rationally inferred, directly or indirectly tested...but not - heretofore, described. I wonder that too. It's certainly possible, and would resolve some paradox, in specific instances, for sure. I can only say that we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
You've been asking me what -allows- for mind, qualia, psychogony, psychology. Both of us, it seems...say brain, to one extent or another. I think that what we do know -could-, not necessarily does, but -could- explain what we desire to know. I appreciate that you wonder if there's more, or think that there must be more - in order to explain the phenomena we both agree exists and is real in a tangible and meaningful sense. An unknown, or barely known quantity or quality that might be rationally inferred, directly or indirectly tested...but not - heretofore, described. I wonder that too. It's certainly possible, and would resolve some paradox, in specific instances, for sure. I can only say that we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
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