RE: The human brain is under a delusion that it is a mind
September 24, 2014 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2014 at 8:50 pm by Whateverist.)
(September 24, 2014 at 8:37 pm)Blackrook Wrote: Everything we think, feel, love, hate isn't real.
What are you on about?
What I think are real thoughts. They are not real rocks or other physical objects because they're different in kind.
What I feel, including love and hate, are real feelings. My feelings are of the same stuff yours are, just minus the supernatural theories. If we studied how electrodes and chemicals could affect your feelings, they would be affected similarly to the way mine would be. The facts of how physical phenomena affect our feelings does not exhaust what our feelings are, neither does poetry. Feelings are experienced first hand by subjects.
Do you think existence of subjects argues for the supernatural? (I fail to see how.) What we know first hand is that we experience things so subjects exist. What the underlying requirements may be for subjects to exist is something we can argue about. But the fact that we exist is hardly an argument for magic.
