(October 7, 2013 at 7:58 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(October 7, 2013 at 6:33 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Oh please...That's a silly request. We don't actually have any way of KNOWING something/someone has a mind except by talking to them. The same goes for near-death experiences: nobody ever reported one who didn't have a working brain.
Provide a single example of a mind without a physical substrate (brain).
No unsupported assertions please. Demonstrable evidence.
And no, the silly argument of the OP does not support the claim that a mind can exist minus a brain.
Show me proof that any brain has an actual mind associated with it, and doesn't just seem to.
The only credence I could attach to the word "mind" would be nothing more than a placecard metaphor for what we observe about our brains when they are in motion, but "mind" is not a separate thing or even an actually physical thing. In reality all we are is our brain in motion. Much like we say 55 miles per hour when describing the speed of the car in motion.
It just doesn't sound sexy to say "you have a beautiful brain" so "mind" is a romantic placebo word to avoid the reality that we are merely our brains in motion.
