Janus

I don't deny that all of those are possible faculties of the body/brain, but they will only be realized by certain brains that are capable of them. An...

Right, but I haven't disagreed with any of the experimental results of neuroscience. The tension I see is moving form those results to ontological cla...

I agree with this. An experience is an experience, and no matter how closely we might be able to identify the neural correlates of an experience, we c...

OK, no worries.

You've lost me then: what were you not speculating about?

Well, your speculation failed to be in accord with the facts. If you felt insulted that would be a different thing, but that would not be a matter of ...

That'd be an appropriate comment if I had insulted you.

I'm not dismissing science, but questioning your interpretation of what it entails; two very different things. Also, if you actually read what I wrote...

It wasn't an insult. Your being a fervent believer in Christianity explains your current status as fervent believer in what you think neuroscience has...

Ah, that explains it.

Fair enough, though I don't believe the judgements of the mind are made in a hermetically sealed vacuum; I tend towards thinking that they reflect som...

So it would seem. Of course the other possibility is that numbers exist in the mind of God, but that one's impossible to argue. At least we know we do...

It seems that it must be the skin; you cannot have diversity of skin without skins which differ. Of course you could have genetic diversity which expl...

You "don't think so" what? I don't need to see the data to know that it cannot support the kind of claim you are making. Yours is a metaphysical or on...

Of which no two are exactly the same.

No, being diverse is the human default. When it comes to (existential angst) I think it mostly afflicts those for whom their lives are an issue that n...

Yep, nice concundrum! I predict we will continue to receive promissory notes for the 'be-all-and-end-all-explanation, from neuroscience, though. It mi...

Sure, a community that arguably shares the same basic presuppositions; presuppositions which cannot themselves be scientifically tested/ There are fun...

Yes, and in light of that what could it even mean to say we are nothing but our brains? That claim itself is anything but an empirically falsifiable o...

At least you're able to admit that much.

Not that you have noticed, it's true.

Nothing to offer but difficulties for your position. You can lead a hoar to culture, but you can't make him think.

I don't know about you, but my brain can't see itself at all. :cry: And apparently your brain (or is it your brain's brain?) can't tell the difference...

O, the tragedy of a brain that doesn't understand itself...

That wasn't intended to be an argument; it was a question.

No you are your brain; you (the brain referred to as Mww) did it. :rofl: What if the 'folk' models produced by the brain(s) are more adaptively fit th...

I'm here to discuss this with you, not to be directed to read articles of a kind I've already looked at, and have no argument with, as far as they go....

I was being a little hyperbolic. Of course there have been other intelligent comments, yours included.

Finally...an intelligent comment!

Dysfunctionailty is not all or nothing. We are all, more or less, dysfunctional. What's the difference? Is the emotional kind not caused by neurologic...

This is a gross generalization. Some brains may be what we might call normatively functional and others not. If a brain is normatively dysfunctional t...

The point is that if you are nothing but your brain then you are entirely limited by its capacities and proclivities. Your brain does what it does and...

For you, how you and others think about it is important, if it is important for you, obviously. How the decision-makers think about it is obviously im...

There is no "you" over and above ""high-level cognitive functions that foster goal-directed behavior and are a pre-requisite for sustained focusing, r...

At the moment, something is being done about it; mostly imposing sanctions on Russia and supplying 'humanitarian' aid and weapons to Ukraine. Anyway i...

All rigidly determined by nothing but the brain according to you. High-sounding talk about "executive functions" doesn't change the entailments of the...

Not sure what point you are trying to make. NATO could make an executive decision to refrain from further intervention and sanctions and let the Russi...

No, on the physicalist presumption those "new conceptualizations" are just further neural processes caused by prior neural processes. The brain is not...

Of course. But then the question would be whether he ought to be allowed to have his way in Ukraine to avoid nuclear war, which would be the end for e...

You say that we are our brains. We have no awareness of the neural processes going on in our brains which determine all our thoughts. words and action...

Not unless they took it seriously.

Perhaps his ego is so great that he would not be willing to go down alone, but willing to go down if he takes the world with him. Who knows what he's ...

I think the likelihood of nuclear deployment is small. But if Putin didn't think it would be considered even remotely as a serious threat, then why wo...

Let's hope he is rational enough to see it as you say.

It does seem unlikely. Likely only to be a coercive threat. But there is no guarantee of that, obviously.

The appropriate political response is diplomacy, to be sure. But we are not politicians. In the context of the world stage, what we say on here is of ...

There is no history that justifies this. It is a reckless destabilizing act of a maniac, and should be recognized as such, putting aside all the suppo...

Putting aside all the historical and political subtleties, it is the instigator of war between one nation and another, the aggressor, that is to be co...

It's counter intuitive, but that is the result yielded by the "two slit experiment". No one claims to be able to understand it, just as no one claims ...

I feel you; I know it can be intimidating to present your ideas and face criticism. But that is how we learn and develop our thinking. Wittgenstein sa...