The Brain=Mind Fallacy

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I love how every whiny pussy who makes a big show of setting another account to ignore invariably spends the rest of their time reading every post from that account and usually responds to them as well, demonstrating for all the sort of immature crybabies they are.

"Ignore" is for Poseurs.

Despite your acceptable points there is something about your manner that smacks of nothing but offensiveness and discourtesy, by all means argue as you will but there is no need to stoop to unpleasant conduct. Surely there is no reason for you to go off as you just have, there are differences of opinion between you and other people but shouting your mouth off and insulting well-respected members is no way to gain the respect or acceptance of others on this forum and, believe me, you'd be even better off to avoid doing so in reality.

While you may have been on the side that had the most accepted explanation do not feel that it gives you the right to step further than is necessary in your refutation, if you disagree with an idea, dispute that but never act so as to disrespect the proponents of that idea.

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On the actual subject matter of this thread, I'd like to refute the materialistic approach simply by saying two things:
-The brain may exist where the mind does not, this is a necessary belief for anyone who believes in human superiority and/or the status of humanity as the exclusive rational animal. Thus the mind is not necessarily linked to the brain as we would see some forms of development such as those experienced in humanity in animals such as the elephant, whale or bottle-nose dolphin as they all have larger cranial capacities than humans.
-The existence of the cogito must be and the consciousness of man cannot be fully explained by the materialistic explanation of the human brain, while there are stark similarities between the brain and mind (seen in lobotomy etc) we cannot assume that this is deductive evidence for the mind as there is a possibility that the brain simply provides for the functionalist view of the mind. This would fall foul of the chinese room effect and so the mentally damaged may not be examples of the a loss of mind but rather a loss of the capacity to express the consciousness as a healthy person would.

anyhow, thats my two-penneth, perhaps I am completely wrong. Hopefully if that is so I will receive more courteous treatment than others in this thread