Assertions that thoughts are totally reducible to the squeezings of a brain are the question begging ones. For they are palpably self-refuting. There is no basis for the assertion otherwise than said brain, and truth collapses.
But keep on partying like it's 1889 eliminitavists...knock yourselves out.
I don't understand. Are saying it's *not possible* that evolution stranded us with a bunch of cognitive kluges?
ReplyDeleteI've often wondered what would happen if you took a brain scan of a neuroscientist taking a brain scan of a subject while claiming that all of said subject's subjectivity is really what shows up on the brain-scan monitor.
ReplyDeleteThere's no basis for the claim except to state "there's a brain"?
ReplyDeleteEssentially that's true. Not sure how it's self refuting though, unless you already take it as true that the thoughts saying "there's a brain" are outside the squeezings of a brain.