Re: To the writers of the Talk.Origins website

On May 1, 5:48 pm, someone2 <glenn.spig...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I understand you are saying there is only the physical. You don't seem
to register any of the objections to the perspective.

Your main objection seems to be that it seems implausible to you. I
understand that. But it does not seem implausible to me. All of your
arguments start out assuming your conclusion.

Assume the mind is purely physical. Then you have your objection,
which is that we feel like we are something non-physical inhabiting a
physical body. OK. We feel that the sun rises and sets over a fixed
earth. We "see" water shimmering in puddles on hot, dry asphalt. We
are subject to all sorts of illusions based on the limitations of our
perspective and our perceptual apparatus.

Assume the mind is non-physical but linked, somehow, to the brain.
Then you have the objection that you have no way to explain how a non-
physical thing interacts with a physical thing to get it to do what it
wants, or how the physical things, trauma, drugs, Alzheimer's can
influence the non-physical mind.

Given the two two choices, I have no trouble believing that my
instinctive feeling that "I" am a non-material "ghost in the machine"
is simply an illusion. Under that assumption I do not have to come up
with a complex explanation of how a physical brain and a non-physical
mind interact and influence each other.

Anyway what did
you think of the idea of any government interested in peace could
contributing a percentage of their war budget into looking into an
alternative?

It would be lovely if it happened.


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