RE: The mind brain connection
August 16, 2010 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2010 at 9:48 am by Captain Scarlet.)
(August 16, 2010 at 9:15 am)tackattack Wrote: Before I'll even get into the difference between mind and soul... you first have to prove that the brain and the mind are exclusively codependent and neither can function without the other. Specifically, How can you prove that the mind (everything we call the self, id, ego, identity, etc.) dies when the brain dies, and what evidence do you have to support it conclusively?No I don't because i don't have a burden of proof concerning immaterial constructs surviving death. That is something for the philosophy of mind to take up with theology. I just need to disprove substance dualism which advocates there are completely separate material stuff (brain) and immaterial stuff (mind/soul) which theism requires for an afterlife. The evidence against dualism are:
- individuals suffering brain damage can experience personality changes. Something unexpected in dualism
- causation of mind and brain would mean that every time we decided to do anything in dualism a miracle occured as the immaterial mind interacted with the material brain. There is no known way for this to happen.
- occams razer would suggest we should not propose 2 entities when 1 is sufficient
