Mind = Brain?

[Purple Rabbit]

Well could you elaborate on this please?:

But the point is however that in your response you do not make a difference between the semantics at the formal level and at the common language level. Keeps one wondering.

So you know I'm not making the argument from ignorance really and yet you persist?

I accept your apology.

EvF

It seems we all persist, EvF. If I analyse your statement at the formal level, it suggests that you use absence of evidence as an argument for something. This is a negative formulation. Absence of evidence cannot be evidence for anything, formally. Do you agree that in formal reasoning absence of evidence does not add up to any particular truth statement.

If I read your statement at the common language level it says something like: "As long as I have no evidence of the contrary of A I see no reason to consider the contrary of A. I refrain from taking it into account in any practical way, yet I do not exclude the possibility that evidence may be presented at a later time, in which case I will consider it."
This statement differs considerably from the formal interpretation.