For just take divisibility for starters. Sensible things can be divided. Or at least, they can if they are physical things - that is, if they take up space. For anything that takes up some space can be divided in two. One can have half a mug, half a piece of cheese, half a molecule, and so on. But not half a mind. Well, if all things that are extended in space can, by their very nature, be divided and one's mind cannot be divided, then one's mind is not extended in space and is thus not a sensible object. — Bartricks
In your analogy of the house with two floors, the kind of dependency of the second floor on the first (a structural dependency) I think is misleading when applied to the dependancy of the mind on the brain. — Daniel
Think about this, the mind changes; the brain changes; why could the mind not be the result of change occurring to brain components (where the rate of change changes with time)? — Daniel
They don't have parts and talk of parts has to be treated very carefully (Plato, who also recognized that the mind is indivisible, nevertheless talked of parts of the mind, but he did not mean by this that the mind has parts in the way that an apple does or a building does, but rather that the mind has different faculties - faculties of reason, appetite and spirit. These are not 'parts' of the mind, but aspects of the mind). — Bartricks
But what? Please copmplete your thought. I like to know your opinion. — Alkis Piskas
BTW, in your first comment (which I quoted in my "collection" of responses) you stated "So, I guess, the brain inside our skulls does the thinking." Are you revising or questioning your view? — Alkis Piskas
Just like Dumbo is certain that the magic feather makes him fly, — TheMadFool
You need some serious soul cleansing. — TheMadFool
Fair enough.Yes, I'm revising my position. — TheMadFool
Come again? :smile: Are you talking about that spongy organ inside the skull?the brain could be an illusion — TheMadFool
It might well be so. But I still trust my senses! :grin:anything we perceive with our senses is, according to Cartesian skepticism, unreliable — TheMadFool
But I still trust my senses — Alkis Piskas
No problem, go ahead please, you cannot "burst my bubble"! :smile:I don't mean to burst your bubble — TheMadFool
No, you really don't! :smile:and I know this is hard — TheMadFool
and I know this is hard
— TheMadFool
No, you really don't! :smile: — Alkis Piskas
normal mental state — Alkis Piskas
Hallucination, mirage, optical/auditory/tactile Illusion, ... You can bring dozens of such states. They all have this in common: they are abnormal and refer to physical or mental sickness. — Alkis Piskas
in a twist of fate, the patients are treating the doctors. — TheMadFool
It sounds like a modern version of the Haman's gallows story from the Bible. One of my favorites — Mark Nyquist
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