RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
May 31, 2012 at 4:42 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2012 at 4:42 pm by Reforged.)
(May 31, 2012 at 4:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 31, 2012 at 4:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote: "Thoughts" don't do anything, the word "thought" is a place card word to an abstraction. You are accusing the "speed" of the car as being the car itself.Your analogy misses the point. Thought has an experiential component without a causal link to any physical process. Descriptions of how we think and feel do not correspond to anything measurable or observable. What is the observable difference between neural activity that produces pain versus neural activity that produces the memory of your grandmother? Location? Intensity? Please explain why should those matter and determine differences in felt experience? Moreover, why do some neural activities produce no conscious experiences at all when the brain is still alive and functioning? Do you think toasters have subjective experiences?
Er... no... no it didn't. Pretty sure it hit it dead on. You've just retreated back to gaps in the human understanding of the brain.
I mean I get it, I wouldn't want to admit it either but your arguement got ripped apart like the last sanitary towel in a particularly rough womans prison.
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