Dead brains have no thoughts. No brains no thoughts. Show me a thought independent of a living brain and I'll reconsider the dualist position...if I'm alive. The origin of this dualism is the Bible and the expression, In the beginning there was The Word. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 9:10:41 AM Subject: Re: "...The realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation." In a message dated 5/16/12 9:49:34 AM, [email protected] writes: > And it can't happen without a living, pulsing brain. Oops, that's the > realm of > the physical, ain't it? > wc > > Dualists don't deny the physical, neural world. But, as Updike conveys, their honest conviction is that a feeling, a thought, is not a material thing. See David Chalmers's anthology, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: Classical and Contemporary Readings.
