(July 8, 2014 at 2:06 am)ignoramus Wrote: Pickup, why would you say the mind is predominantly physical?
The brain is. The thought processes are are derivative of the brain and without the brain, there is no mind.
Are you saying that our feelings and morality is just how the electrons bounce around inside our head and nothing else. I'm not disagreeing with you, at the end of the day, that's exactly what they are.
I certainly don't believe in an externally installed "soul".
The non living atoms from the periodic table which are unintelligently rearranged to make the entity known as "ignoramus" have processed the electrons in his brain in such a pattern that he want you to know that "he is now fucking depressed".
Fuck me! Is that all we really are! Being an ape sounds a lot more sophisticated.
It seems like you answered your own question quite adequately... but why despair? What you just described is magical! Real magic! Which is, of course, not real magic at all.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
