It’s what physicists study. I don’t really buy the argument from evolution. You can remove a persons nostrils or feet. And they will have a lower chan...
Then I misspoke. It is not coincidence. You can go back and check why as I explained in the last comment. I said “coincides with” but I didn’t mean it...
Sure and you’re welcome to call my ideas ridiculous and faulty. But that’s different from saying “you’re incapable of understanding”. Which is what yo...
What proof do you have that it did? That remembering the route precedes taking it? That’s not proof of causality. Who said coincidence? Think of it th...
Yes it is quite apparent. You want to say that the thought caused some chemical reaction in your brain. And that in turn eventually caused the turning...
No they are not. Symbolic language and thought coincide with our inventing and use of such devices. They do not cause it. That is my hypothesis. Yours...
When you can’t defend your position your resort to ad Homs as if that accomplishes anything. Respond to the question or don’t bother And, no. For the ...
Sure. And what physical impact does that have, precisely? How do you go from the decision to the movement? Where on the causal chain of the movement i...
Correct. Non sequitor. It could be the case that the workings of their minds are a side effect. It remains to be seen that they are causal. Again, M1 ...
I don't understand how that leads to saying that the human mind can somehow not understand the world and itself. So I don't see the dispute. If a move...
What’s the direction and how many meters per second are we at? Sort of. Sure. When was that in dispute? Why not? Is it not the case that a mind causin...
Natural? Sure. Physical? Definitely not. Does your mind have momentum? Mass? Velocity? If it has any of these things that means I can physically pick ...
Sure but we’re not talking about physics are we? In fact we’re talking about something non physical. A mind. Asking whether or not it causes physical ...
Sure it will. If you can find a neuron firing without any physical cause. We can then attribute that to a mind doing something top down. The condition...
Sure and that decision, and the thought that the decision had causal power, were both results of certain neural changes. Not the other way around. No ...
What exactly do you mean here? How does determining the meaning change the course of action? If, say you want to raise your arm. Does your mind teleki...
That's not a logical principle. The weather can affect me but I can't affect the weather. And what would the mind affecting the body look like, exactl...
Well it should tell me that energy is conserved there. That momentum is conserved there. Unless the brain is somehow magical and telekinesis is just a...
What does that mean? What does the "Embodied" serve to add there? Does it mean "Physics breaks there"? Far as I can tell the brain strictly falls with...
Sure and I agree with that. What I'm disagreeing with is that the mind causes any physical changes "top down". Which is what I understand you claimed....
I'll check it out but I'm not sure if I trust a book published in 1975 is the best source for this. That's half a century ago now. Any other recommend...
Do you know this or are you assuming it is what will happen? Because I gave an example where the exact opposite happens above. I think the patients wo...
But regardless, even if they were able to tell. What would that prove? I don’t see how it contradicts my model at all. How does it prove that minds ca...
I edited the comment. And no I don’t see what the hypothetical is supposed to provide because I don’t understand it. Do you mean to say that the subje...
What is “this process” that is mechanical? I don’t understand. I’ll suppose you mean the movements and sensations the surgeon is triggering. If so we ...
We seem to agree that movement happens because of neurons. And that intents happen because of neurons. Or, at least that intents don’t cause movements...
We would look at the an act. Say, raising your arm. And check whatever neuron results in the raising. Then you’d ask a participant to freely choose to...
No. This is elementary school physics. Closed means no energy exchange from outside the system to inside it or vice versa. If it is too complicated fo...
How is it inconsistent? The physical laws talk about how material things interact. I’m saying that interaction also causes minds and such. Let’s look ...
Well we both agree there. There is no buildup there (or any reason) for me to say that. My c-fibers would fire. And then I would feel like moving my a...
Not knowledge of. Just that neurons firing caused my decision. And also the movement. In a pair. I would even be willing to bet that they were the sam...
Not arbitrarily. Though, again, it must seem so to you since your highest form of evidence is "It seems to me that way". False. You just don't underst...
Yes issue so far. If you deciding to move your arm causes any physical change, that would be telekinesis. It would be as weird as an astronaut decidin...
Sure that I’ll buy. Though I would say statement 1 is liable to misinterpretation. Makes it sound almost as if the thought is a causal agent. Bartrick...
But you haven’t shown that. It could also be the case that the thought coincided with the neural change. Not that it caused it. For it to have caused ...
Well you’re saying that mind affects matter above and beyond matter affecting matter. In other words, the conscious thought to raise my arm is what ca...
But the claim was that the mind alters the brain above and beyond the brain altering the brain. If so we should expect to see some movement or other i...
Sure but even that doesn’t prove that it was “mind altering matter” so much as “mind being altered as a side effect to matter altering matter”. I don’...
But maybe it’s: You brain, in the process of raising the arm, creates the intent that you are raising the arm, and the impression that the intent caus...
Are contradictory statements. I’m interested in where you get the second. Because I’m not so sure that it’s “intentional actions change neural configu...
Shouldn't it? Otherwise how would you square it with the conservation laws (energy, momentum, torque, etc). Or are those in doubt for you? Genuine que...
I think this is a perfect illustration of what Isaac was saying. For me, I didn't detect any hostility in GLEN's comments or post. Body language is mi...
Not just materialism. Everyone can agree that feelings are the creations of neurons firing. Because when the neurons don't fire you don't have the fee...
I know I’m repeating myself but I’m more so saying this hoping to resolve disagreement with others. And seeing how others would disagree with me. I th...
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