The Brain=Mind Fallacy

[Angrboda]

I'll cut to the chase if you like. Your "ideas" have already been tried, examined, and found wanting well over a half century ago. On that basis, are you willing to give up "the idea" that ideas have to be scientifically and empirically confirmed in order for them to be valid? Or is this an idea you are not willing to give up if challenged?

There is a difference between things we accept without evidence in daily life, for example, I have a reasonable expectation that my house will still be in tact when I get home. I have a reasonable expectation that my cat will still be alive when I get home, he is young enough and strictly an indoor cat. And then there are outrageous claims like Big Foot, Area 51 UFO crap, perpetual motion machines, phone psychics and god/s deities/super natural.

So? What the fuck does this have to do with the price of tea in China? I didn't ask you about any such claims.

I don't assume that my house wont suffer damage ever, I do live in hurricane territory, I don't assume my cat will live forever, but my house exists and my cat exists. Those other claims are not provable and are merely the conspiracy pet whims of those who support them.

Again, so fucking what? I didn't ask about any of these things. I can only assume you're littering your response with irrelevant red herrings in a vain attempt to obscure the fact that you haven't answered the question. Or I could be uncharitable and conclude that you're too stupid to even understand the question.

If my house got damaged by a fallen tree or hit by lightening, I wouldn't keep my prior expectation that it is ok, when new data comes in, I change. When my cat gets older my expectations will change because when any pet or human gets old their health becomes an issue.

The other claims I mentioned don't start in anything provable, other than humans have vivid imaginations.

More irrelevant bull twaddle. You sure do seem to like to listen to yourself prattle on about this and that. It's a shame there are no actual answers in your soliloquys.

On second thought, I'm not going to be charitable. The reason you're making up all these irrelevant examples is because you don't actually understand the question. And I don't really care to waste my time explaining a simple question to a moron who is more interested in pontificating about his rather unrelated views than answering the question asked.


You, sir, are a turnip.

*plonk*