RE: Mind/matter duality
May 31, 2013 at 8:10 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2013 at 8:17 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 31, 2013 at 6:27 am)little_monkey Wrote: ...if someone puts an axe through your brain, and that your mind won't be functioning very well after proves in every way that there is a deep connection between the two.The dumbest arguments are oft repeated. And I can prove life after death,...but you have to die first.
(May 31, 2013 at 3:53 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...I'm addressing the idea of physical monism-- a purely determinist model in which mind and free will have no actual effect on outcomes, because they are at best illusory byproducts supervenient on brain chemistry or information processing.Bingo! The inability to account for qualia is only one problem among many. Physical monism stacks philosophical argument against the direct evidence of everything that gives life value.
