RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 2, 2012 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2012 at 3:52 pm by Brian37.)
To quote the two old men in the balcony in the Muppet Show
"Why do we always come here
I guess we'll never know
It's kinda like a torture
To have to watch this show"
The OP is a hopeless case. We have already explained over and over that "thoughts" are not material things anymore than "speeding" is a material thing. We've already over and over told him the scientific medical FACT that once your brain dies, you die.
Woo is woo and this nutter simply doesn't want to face facts.
Material World, By Brian37
Thoughts are
To the brain
What speeding is
To a car
Those who insist
That "we" are separate
From our brains
Are deluded
Victor S
In his book
Said that science
Could take a look
Science can study
The immaterial
Like dark matter
And black holes
Just like speed
Is not a thing
How is it then
Police give you a ticket?
Thoughts are not things
Merely a word
Used to describe
Outcomes of material processes
We do not
Outlast our bodies
When the brain dies
You die, that is it.
The needless conflation
Of the ordinary
Of our existence
Is all it is
It's not sexy enough
For woo mongers
To face the finite
They MUST live on
No one does
No one will
Vile speculation
Reason mutilated
"Why do we always come here
I guess we'll never know
It's kinda like a torture
To have to watch this show"
The OP is a hopeless case. We have already explained over and over that "thoughts" are not material things anymore than "speeding" is a material thing. We've already over and over told him the scientific medical FACT that once your brain dies, you die.
Woo is woo and this nutter simply doesn't want to face facts.
Material World, By Brian37
Thoughts are
To the brain
What speeding is
To a car
Those who insist
That "we" are separate
From our brains
Are deluded
Victor S
In his book
Said that science
Could take a look
Science can study
The immaterial
Like dark matter
And black holes
Just like speed
Is not a thing
How is it then
Police give you a ticket?
Thoughts are not things
Merely a word
Used to describe
Outcomes of material processes
We do not
Outlast our bodies
When the brain dies
You die, that is it.
The needless conflation
Of the ordinary
Of our existence
Is all it is
It's not sexy enough
For woo mongers
To face the finite
They MUST live on
No one does
No one will
Vile speculation
Reason mutilated