RE: consciousness?
February 22, 2013 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 3:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 18, 2013 at 6:46 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: This is true because we can talk about the inner life of the mind without making any reference to the brain or its functioning.
Really? Care to provide an example? I think you might mean that you can avoid actually mentioning the brain or its function when you talk about the "inner life of the mind" - not that the reference isn't there, regardless of whether or not you choose to acknowledge it. I can talk about a car race without mentioning combustion too. That's not very impressive.
I'm not sure why all the debate is actually required on this one, can't you just produce a disembodied consciousness, or "mind" with no brain? I think that would definitively settle it in your favor, don't you? If your idea of an "intimate connection" that no one denies makes the one indistinguishable from the other - I'm gonna go ahead and go with the one we can actually produce, personally. I see no reason to invoke your spirit mind or whatever you like to think of it as, when the one in hand handles the job without the added baggage of extraneous assumption.
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