Re: Religion center in the brain

J.A.Legris wrote:
Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
[...]
No. It would be the mereological fallacy to say that the mouth eats, but
nobody is likely to make that mistake. Why, then, is it so likely that
someone will say that the brain thinks, or decides, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
etc. etc.?


But the mouth can eat, and everyone who uses colloquial speech
restricts the sense appropriately within context. A mouth that eats
simply takes in and chews food - there is no confusion about the actual
locus of digestion. Similarly, a brain that thinks is distinct from the
person doing the thinking. One context is physiology, the other is
behaviour. Of course, if one is completely unaware of brain physiology
then the two contexts are effectively one, but that's another issue.

It seems to me that this mereological problem begins with radical
behaviourism overstepping its legitimate domain. You say that EAB
doesn't need reduction to neuroscience to provide a complete account of
behaviour, but you also say that neurological events are themselves
behaviour. Therefore, (apparently) statements about the neurological
level are necessarily about the behavioural level as well, which is
automatically fallacious.

--
Joe Legris


"The mouth eats" is a metaphor. So?
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