RE: Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain
October 8, 2013 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2013 at 10:51 am by Bucky Ball.)
(October 8, 2013 at 9:23 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I accept your challenge. When you set a thermostat to 72, it intends to reach it. Explain to me how this is different from a hungry dog that intends to eat a rabbit. From a materialistic perspective both exhibit mental properties. Only the thermostat has no brain yet shows goal directed behaviour.
You're really THAT desperate ?
YOU set the thermometer. It did not set itself. YOU have a brain. It's YOUR goal, not the thermometer's goal.
Try try again.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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