(May 31, 2012 at 4:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote: "Thoughts" don't do anything, the word "thought" is a place card word to an abstraction. You are accusing the "speed" of the car as being the car itself.
"thoughts" are merely the outcome of our material processes, much like 55mph is the observation of "speed" of the car. Speed is not a thing, but a description of the material process of the car moving faster.
Where exactly are these thoughts physically? Speed is not a physical entity, you can't touch speed, it can be observed, but has no physical nature. You use speed as an analogy to thought, are you therefore admitting that thought is non-physical? Also speed isn't self aware..
Are you saying that thought is a non-physical outcome of material processes?
Would you say that a computer has thoughts? Does an electrical distribution network have thoughts?
