(January 24, 2015 at 10:37 am)Nope Wrote:In all fairness to Chad that would be begging the question since that's the point at issue. It isn't an analytic truth because there isn't a real clear agreed upon definition of the word mind, which makes it pointless to argue over. Why argue over ill-defined concepts? I don't see how any one can hope to explain something that hasn't been defined well enough to explain. If people can't agree on what they are all trying to explain something is wrong.(January 24, 2015 at 6:05 am)Pizz-atheist Wrote: What criteria would you judge this explain by and why? What would count as a solved problem here? Do you have a supernaturalistic explanation that solves the mind-body problem? What reasons do you have for thinking the supernaturalistic explanation is likely true?
Chadwooter's answer still confuses me. Is he saying that he doesn't believe that thoughts, opinions and emotions originate in the brain? Isn't the mind just another word for the brain?
People need to come up with better questions if these kind of disputes never end. Maybe we are asking the wrong questions.
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