Mind = Brain?

[Edwardo Piet]

I was talking about why I don't believe. You seem to misunderstand The Argument from Ignorance and I believe you've incorrectly had me with it before too. The Argument From Ignorance is when I claim that because I know of no evidence for something that it therefore can't be so.... I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that I don't believe because I know of no evidence. When I say "that's why I don't believe" the emphasis is on the that's why I don't believe. I personally would require to have what I at least thought was evidence before I am to believe.

What I am giving is not an argument from ignorance, what I am giving you is basically.... - if you don't mind me quoting your own signature at you? -:

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." - Christopher Hitchens

That is not the argument from ignorance of course. There's a difference.

For it to be the argument from ignorance it would have to be something more like "What can be asserted without proof is surely absolutely false".

If you see implications of the argument from ignorance then I don't and I didn't intend any... perhaps you should make sure you catch me more explicitly making it next time if I really am making it. What I am speaking of is dismissing the belief in a mind without a brain because I know of no evidence. 'That's why' I personally disbelieve. I believe 'that's why' anyway....

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