(March 5, 2019 at 11:05 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: There is no such thing as "mind". What there are, are brains and brain processes, and they exist, because they promote evolutionary survival.
Why anything exists at all is a Physics problem. Not a god problem. Same old bad habit at work.
Without healthy functioning brains, in every single case, there is not one instance of "mind".
The fact you don't have an answer to something never justifies jumping to "well maybe god done it", whether you call that an "unknown in a box" or an "entity".
A philosophical entity would have to itself exist, therefore to say that one "allows for existence'' is not only meaningless,
but impossible, as it would have had to create the Reality it requires itself to exist, (and that's one of the insurmountable problems that makes ANY god incoherent). Existence is not nothing.
I'm pretty sure there IS a thing such as mind, since I'm capable of subjective experience.
As for brains and minds-- what, exactly, are your criteria for determining what physical systems do or don't have "mind"? If I bring in a collection of material into Bucky Ball's laboratory, how will you determine whether it does or doesn't constitute an instance of "mind"?