Re: The problem of intelligence.


"Curt Welch" <curt@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Risujin <risujin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Curt Welch wrote:
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> The mind and the brain are one and the same. There are not two things
> here, it's only one.

Agreed, in the sense that mind is brain activity. But why do they appear as
"two" ? Although I agree that language can play a lot of tricks on us, I
believe that the idea that language is the only "culprit" that bugged us into
mind-body dualism is naive. In my view, the sense of mind-body (mind-matter)
dualism is a natural consequence of how the brain is wired to it's environment
via the (myriad) senses.

I think the core reason that we have a sense of mind-brain duality is simply
organic - and actually quite easy to understand and explain. Just as,
analogously, cross eyed vision makes people see two objects whereas in fact
there is only one. Language only comes in later where the cross-eyed person
can identify two identical objects verbally.


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