(May 15, 2015 at 9:38 am)Little Rik Wrote: You keep on citing the brain as the one who is in charge but in reality is in charge for nothing so if you really want to understand something in thisResearchers have been able to map out the areas of the brain responsible for various aspects of the mind by studying which areas 'light up' when people are thinking or reacting in various ways. I'm not concerned with whether the brain is "in charge" or whether the mind is. They're part of the same system. The car/driver analogy is designed to explain how the mind is a wholly separate entity that can exist apart from the physical body, but once you go there you are in the realm of metaphysics, which you have admitted cannot be studied in any consistent or verifiable manner. I don't worry about the stuff that cannot be tested, much less researched in a consistent manner. And the more we learn, the more we find that the mind is just a function of the brain, not a metaphysical construct.
context you really should deal with the mind not the brain.
I see no reason to chase after ghosts, when science has proven capable of finding the answers if given enough time and enough freedom to work unhindered.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
