(December 5, 2013 at 2:21 am)genkaus Wrote: You succintly state my position in the first phrase and then, for the rest of the post, proceed to ignore it and argue against something else altogether. You cannot pretend that you simply misunderstood it if you were able state it in the beginning.
Whether you realize it or not, Genkaus, you are exploiting an ambiguity in your position that allows you to have your cake and eat it too. If qualia, and other mental processes are functions, then what are you saying implements those functions other than brain processes? What exactly do you say performs the “functions” of sensation, apprehension, judgment, and reasoning? Is it the mental processes? Or is it the brain processes? Or is it the brain processes and the mental ones together? Or are they one and the same?
