Ask the Christian

[lucent]

Okay, do you have any evidence to prove your claim that it isn't rational to believe something without sufficient evidence?

It's a fucking tautology. Look up the relevant meanings of "rational", which should lead you to "reason", and finally "fact".

It isn't a tautology. Do you what tautology means? If you want to say that it is always irrational to believe in someting without sufficient evidence, then it must be true for all circumstances. I have demonstrated it isn't true for all circumstances, therefore the claim is self-refuting and itself irrational.

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Oh fuck we're not doing the old 'the mind is evidence for the supernatural' thing again.

Some people believe without any real reason to that the something called the mind exists apart from the brain.

What you percive as the mind is just the brain what the brain does, in short the 'mind' is almost certainly brain processes.
The effects of the brain mind link can be readily shown because changes to he brain change the 'mind' things like drugs, injury, discease or just plain tiredness can cause people to act in different ways, this shows that the physical link between what we think of as ourselves and the brain are real.

If you are positing that there is some non-physical element involved, then you have a mountain to climb trying to prove it.

Others have tried and all have failed.

That wasn't my claim, and this has nothing to do with the argument. I am demonstrating that there are things we believe without sufficient evidence, such as:

There is a world external to my mind
There are minds other than my own

Another evidence would be the reliability of my memory. There is no way for me to prove that the Universe wasn't created 5 minutes ago and all of my memories are false. I just choose to believe that my memories are reliable.

Here is some reading material for you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_other_minds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_proble...sciousness