RE: A question regarding proof
September 9, 2011 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2011 at 4:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We cant observe the effects of a lobotomy by collecting data pre/post? We have to ask the patient if he feels different? A friend of my wife, for example, had surgery for a brain tumor, there is no one among us who can say that he is the same person. Not just how we percieve him, but even the way in which he signs his name has changed. Now, my one example would be insufficient to draw a conclusion. Fortunately we have many such examples, and this has of course been a productive area of nueroscience. We've even had an example of such experiments recently discussed on this forum of how changes in environment, (even without physically jacking with the brain) can cause changes in self (measured by observations of behaviour and activity) in the case of monkeys, rape benches, and the "pit of despair". That there is a direct relationship between the material and the mind is documented extremely well. Examples of the "mind" altering material reality are not so well demonstrated. In fact, given what we know of our universe, it is highly unlikely that such a mechanism could even exist. Again, we could be wrong, and all that would be required to suggest so would be evidence.
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