(August 26, 2013 at 5:24 pm)discipulus Wrote: Ok, now moving on let me ask you to confirm that you believe that what most people have traditionally referred to as the "mind" is simply a word that refers to the various chemical reactions that occur within the brain and that the concept is reducible in purely materialistic terms.
Is this correct?
What you've just done is attempted to switch the burden of proof. If I tell you there's a new kind of gravity, it's not on you to prove that yours is the only one.
If all we know is material, then it follows that the brain, a physical entity, is completely bound by the laws of nature, and therein material itself.
