(September 9, 2011 at 4:41 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote:(September 9, 2011 at 4:38 pm)StatCrux Wrote: All very emotional instances, but the problem still remains, observation of mind is not possible, only observation of behavior, physical activity and subjective experience. A very simple analogy is a broken radio, if you can't hear the radio station is it correct to assume it is no longer there?
When the brain itself is the transmitter, yes.
Yeah, but that question is far from nailed down. Why nobody is willing to step up and answer how a guy with no brain can get a math degree is, well, a no-brainer. That's a pretty big white crow right there, wouldn't ya say? I have no idea how this is possible, but it blows me away every time I think about it. I don't know how I'd be talking myself through that one if I was on your team.
