(September 9, 2011 at 11:07 am)StatCrux Wrote: [quote='Rhythm' pid='176725' dateline='1315580186']In the brain, stored and produced electro-chemically.
So where exactly do you usually "find" thoughts. I can appreciate the correlation between brain activity and perceived thought, but it is another leap of assumption to say that "thought" is physically found in "electrical impulses". Hindu philosophy regards "thought" as the instigator of physical phenomena in total reversal of the western materialist view. Modern understanding in philosophy and quantum theory is questioning the westen materialist viewpoint. (see "On physics and philosophy" Bernard d'Espagnat). The fact of the matter is that at the moment we simply don't understand, either viewpoint requires a leap of faith. "The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment." Bernard d'Espagnat
I live in India, Hindus are nice people but also very superstitious and prone to believing some really crazy shit.
As for QM some hippy, new age interpretations have reopened the door wrt to some form of dualism. Most interpretations don't however. Let's wait and see. It is true that matter, or specifically the mass of matter, is an intractable problem in physics, hence the hunt for the Higgs boson, but materialism has moved on from being just about stuff, it has to accept that any part of the natural universe is 'material' even empty space. None of this however endorses supernature nor dualism (ESP substance dualism).
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
