(February 2, 2015 at 3:24 am)Rational AKD Wrote:(February 2, 2015 at 3:16 am)Alex K Wrote: Can I ask you a question? What is, in your idealism, the role of the human brain?
the brain is the representative of our personal consciousness. it is our consciousness' self localization in this apparent physical world. the brain can interact on the mind much like a whirlpool interacts on water.
A whirlpool is water behaving in a certain way because of physics.
Quote:you cannot say the whirlpool produces water just because it affects water much like you cannot say the brain produces consciousness because it affects mind. this is the mind brain interaction I conceive in my idealism.
Consciousness and mind are the outputs of a working higher order brain.
There is no need to invoke any of the woo you have tried to foist on it.
You can see brain function, you can measure it's output and to a certain extent interpret it.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.