RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 11, 2012 at 10:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2012 at 10:48 pm by Brian37.)
(June 11, 2012 at 10:07 pm)cato123 Wrote:(June 10, 2012 at 6:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: THERE IS NO MIND, there are just outcomes of motion which people call "mind". Just like speed is an outcome of the motion of a car.
Outcomes of motion? Are you fucking kidding me? How is this different from claims that you are nothing more than an energy frequency operating in a different spectrum?
THERE IS NO MIND. (your capitalization, not mine). How foolish. To type the words THERE IS NO MIND requires a mind, unless you belive that the act of typing those words, in all caps, was purely accidental.
"Mind" is a word and a bullshit woo word that implies there is something separate from the brain and makes magic out of about mundane organ functions.
You also have to have a brain to make up a word, like snarfwidget, or googgoledgop, but the ability to make shit up is hardly impressive.
Saying "There is no mind" only requires a brain to think with, just like saying there is no god doesn't require a god to believe in.
Now others in this thread have made the argument and no one has refuted it. If one's brains get scrambled by a bullet, or if one's head gets decapitated the the structure is no longer in tact to manifest the display of outward expression you falsely call "mind". There is only the brain and the brain in motion, there is no such thing as a "mind".
I am sorry if that is not sexy enough.
What is so scary about merely being a product of evolution? The brain is an amazing organ and there certainly are lots of interesting historical figures and interesting people in the world today, but I am not going to pretend that "me" is something special outside my own material brain.
I am a product of evolution, genetics, chemical makeup, information input and my brain in motion, but that is it.