(March 16, 2020 at 8:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's not clear what you mean by greater, or that mind and brain are not one and the same, or why being "greater" would make one thing the cause of another.The Principle of Causality states that the cause always preceded the effect, the cause has the sufficiency to explain the effect, the cause is always greater than the effect since it initiates the transaction. Example: a popsicle stuck in the sand at the beach at a 120-degree racked to the ocean has windblown sand that accumulated on it, then sand slides down when a sufficient clump is formed and breaks loose. Wind power, gravity, (causes 1,2) an avalanche (effect) of sand.
You then go on to ask the question of what the first thought that originated from a brain was...but if thoughts originate from brains.....
Conscious stones?
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.