Re: Galileo's Paradox

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:10:40 -0500, Bob Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

David Marcus wrote:


Analogy: mind is software, brain is hardware.

underline the word -analogy-.

Well one hardly expects to find C in the brain, idiot.

Mind, as conceived of by the classical
philosophers, is a substance which differs from material substances. Res
Cogitens vs. Res extensa. This is essentially Cartesian Dualism and is
empirically unfounded. Another analogy. Brain is the instrument. Mind is
the music.

Why don't you put that little bit of dialectical sophistry in one hand
and *** in the other and see which fills up first.

In any case mind appears to be an epiphenomenon of the brain.
It is an effect of the physical activities of the brain. No brain, no
mind. Mind is not a stand-alone object.

Is universal gravitation a stand alone object?

That is why ten thousand years of humans slicing and dicing each other's
bodies has never revealed a mind.

Nor has ten thousand years of slicing and dicing the material universe
revealed gravitation, oh homo habilis.

~v~~
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