RE: Mind is the brain?
March 18, 2016 at 2:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2016 at 2:33 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 18, 2016 at 11:34 am)little_monkey Wrote: That's mumbo-jumbo, and you know it. There is no law in nature that says I can't correlate. The question is what does the correlation show? And that leads to the next point below that I've made before...You can correlate two observable properties. Mind is not observable.
Therefore, you must operationalize the word "mind" to be something which IS observable-- smiles and brain functions. But those things aren't mind. To assume so is to defeat the purpose of experimenting-- why pretend you're searching for or studying mind when you've already adopted an assumption that begs the question?
Quote: You can't answer that point because it defeats your argument. Scientific experiments points in one direction, MIND = BRAIN ACTIVITIES, but you refuse to accept that reality.All caps don't add truth. Nor has science proven itself up to the task of answering philosophical questions about things which aren't objectively observable. In short, you haven't established that you are even experimenting on what you say you're experimenting on.
What if someone decided that since God can't be directly observed, he would take what everyone "knows" is God-- feelings of inspiration-- as a correlate. Then every time someone said they felt inspired, he'd claim he was studying the Lord. Dumb right? Because God can't be shown even to exist, isn't it?
