On naturalism and consciousness

[bennyboy]

The question is whether the brain is the creator of mind, or only the medium which expresses the underlying reality that makes mind inevitable.

So how do you show that the brain is the medium the mind uses to expressed iitself? What experiment(s) will be able to show this?

I didn't say the mind uses the brain to express itself. I said the mind, if it is supervenient on the brain, is a transcendental property-- i.e. that it is not specific to that particular medium. If it is, we're in big trouble, because the information or computation models of consciousness go right out the window, and you are stuck looking at brain chemistry.

As for evidence and experiments-- who cares? There's no good evidence for any kind of mind except the ones we've already accepted for philosophical reasons. Given any physical structure "X," how do YOU show that it has mind, or what experiments can you do on it to show that it experiences qualia? Hit it with a stick and see if it does anything?