RE: Monist vs. Dualist Experiment?
October 28, 2013 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2013 at 9:17 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(October 28, 2013 at 8:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: It seems that brain damage leads to mental incapacitation...Imbalanced brain chemistry leads to altered states of consciousness...Child brain physiology leads to... well... child-like behavior...I agree and stated as much in the OP. None of these facts point definitively in one direction or the other.
(October 28, 2013 at 8:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Death is permanent…Unless you’re a Jewish carpenter from ancient Nazareth ;-) As for the rest of us, physical death is a permanent and bringing it up is a non-sequitor. It says nothing about mind-body interaction in the living.
(October 28, 2013 at 8:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: …consciousness is nothing more than an "emergent quality" of the functioning brain. As I like to say, consciousness is a high abstraction layer, far removed from the basic neuron firings, but they are what fuels and determines the conscious mind.Define emergent quality and I might take your unsupported assertion seriously.
(October 28, 2013 at 8:11 pm)pocaracas Wrote: …Nothing hints towards the dual-nature so present in the body-soul paradigm.... except a lot of wishful thinking.Nothing? Your own conscious experience isn’t a good enough hint? It’s not proof, but it is a hint.
