RE: A question regarding proof
September 9, 2011 at 12:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2011 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I absolutely did address it. The only place we can point to by observation is the brain. Now could thought be occurring elsewhere? Sure, but I'd love to see some evidence of that before I consider the theory as having some equality with our current understanding of the matter. Sorry If I jumped the gun on you with the supernatural. We get a lot of it round these parts. Now, that thought is "simply" electrical impulse (obviously this ignores the chemical aspect) is perhaps a very narrow way of describing it, but what other evidence do we have? I don't dismiss this or that argument because I do not wish to have my beliefs shaken, I dismiss arguments for which there is insufficient evidence. My mind is open, but it is not open to just anything. As a layperson I generally defer to what could be called the "scientific establishment" because these are people who are much more knowledgeable in any given field, and I understand that the gentlemen you linked is part of that. However, one scientists opinion or conclusions does not constitute a fact. Unless we're willing to postulate conspiracy I'm going to side with whatever currently accepted theory science has to offer. Which in this case is that mind is somehow a product of the brain. The details of which we are obviously still trying to work out (an area where we agree completely).
Now, I don't have any particular compulsion to die on the cross of consciousness, I'm here more to repeat (and repeat and repeat) to Fred that if he wishes to state something as existing, or being a part of reality, he's going to have to show some sort of evidence for it. Fred is here to complain that the requirement of evidence is unfair, and in fact not justifiable. Well, cry me a river.
(the review I linked is one opinion, yes. I may read the entire book, my reading list gets longer by the minute..lol)
Now, I don't have any particular compulsion to die on the cross of consciousness, I'm here more to repeat (and repeat and repeat) to Fred that if he wishes to state something as existing, or being a part of reality, he's going to have to show some sort of evidence for it. Fred is here to complain that the requirement of evidence is unfair, and in fact not justifiable. Well, cry me a river.
(the review I linked is one opinion, yes. I may read the entire book, my reading list gets longer by the minute..lol)
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