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It can't be studied by science, I can't open your head and study your mind, it's subjective whatever it is.
nowonmai wrote:What a load of cobblers. Course the mind exists in 3D space, it exists in the neurons of the 3D brain. Proof of the pudding is 3D excisions by scalpel or bullet remove parts of the mind. These gits like descartes must have had too much time on their hands.
Here's an example - you and I are standing on the edge of a summer meadow, the sun is shining. I say to you what colour is the grass - "Green" you'll say, the sky? "Blue" you'll say, that buttercup "yellow" you'll say. But how do I know what I call "yellow" might be what you call "blue"? Your "green" might be what I call "red". Yours and my version of the world may be completely opposite, but we will label things the same. This is called the spectrum inversion argument. What it demonstrates is that the "mind" is subjective
We can't be sure as individuals that other people see the world as we see it, we are all individually closed off.
Jäeger wrote:The main problem in substance dualism is that ...
they didn't have the science to understand the substance. Sorry, no philosophical hocus pocus for me.
Probably by the middle of this century we'll have the brain pretty well understood and philosophical notions of the mind will go the way of alchemy.
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