RE: Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain
October 17, 2013 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2013 at 10:58 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
The fact that you're essentially trotting out substance dualism should've given you - and Plantinga - pause.
Merely because Plantinga trotted out the argument gives me no confidence in its worth.
Given that all minds that we know of are coincident with a complex nervous system, a claim of non-dependence of the former on the latter seems absurd from an evidentiary standpoint. And like all arguments whose proponents refuse to defend the premises, it can just as validly be reversed to reach the opposite conclusion, getting us no further.
Merely because Plantinga trotted out the argument gives me no confidence in its worth.
Given that all minds that we know of are coincident with a complex nervous system, a claim of non-dependence of the former on the latter seems absurd from an evidentiary standpoint. And like all arguments whose proponents refuse to defend the premises, it can just as validly be reversed to reach the opposite conclusion, getting us no further.
