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Recent content by Fervent

  1. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    There's certainly a deep connection, but it's not as if it is a one way street. Changing the mind, that is thought patterns and semantic content of thoughts, changes the brain over time. And we can't just take our own experiences as telling the whole story, as inductive proof is falsified by a...
  2. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    Nothing a priori about it. Naturalistic explanation, inasmuch as it is a coherent concept in and of itself and not just a vacuous and redundant phrase, is a physical explanation. At present, there is nothing in physics that can explain consciousness beyond brains and any coherent explanation of...
  3. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    Perhaps, perhaps not. Just because we have correlates doesn't imply any sort of intrinsic relationship. And it is only if they are identical that we would be able to locate mind within the brain. You replied to an ongoing discussion in which I was responding to a poster who had claimed it was...
  4. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    While the connection may not be obvious, consciousness beyond brain would render the project of naturalistic explanation deeply suspect especially without some teleologic explanation for how mental events coincide with physical events with such consistency. If consciousness exists beyond the...
  5. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    You lose that no matter what, so that's not an answer to my question.
  6. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    What science and machines of measurement have demonstrated that mind and brain are identical? It's not simply previous eras, but a matter of direct experience vs a supposed focus on "empirical" perspectives A meaningless platitude. Science proceeds one funeral at a time. I agree, but when the...
  7. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    what do you have to lose that isn't forfeit anyway?
  8. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    Sure, but if it must be taught then it's not 'obvious"...it's learned. So claiming it to be obvious doesn't answer the question I asked. uh huh...it's also how dogma becomes dogma, especially when things that are in no way obvious are held up as obviously true. The question I asked was how it...
  9. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    Kind of my point, yet despite your ignorance you say something like "of course" as if you know.
  10. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    Something you are so sure of, despite your complete lack of ever experiencing death or encountering anyone who has and could convey their experience.
  11. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    My apologies, I somehow saw my username in the quote...a misperception, it appears. As for Steve, I'm not sure he knows what exactly he is arguing given his endorsement of multiple mutually exclusive positions.
  12. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    In order for something to be "obvious" it must be how ignorant individuals are first struck. There's no appeal to tradition, simply pointing out that someone had to teach you what you call "obvious", and those who are untaught are immediately struck by the opposite inclination. So no, it doesn't.
  13. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    No one has criticized my argument, besides perhaps your flippant accusation of being "newtonian". And I haven't presented any true arguments in favor of my position, only a loose inductive argument for skepticism towards physicalism.
  14. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    Not personally, but I know some people who are. Philosophy at the level of peer review is very much a hive mind with only limited departures being tolerated. It's one of the drawbacks of peer review in humanities in general, such as the field I am active in in which calling yourself a...
  15. Fervent

    If the brain is necessary to have a vision

    This is a by-product of peer pressure, most in the field fear dualism and the quickest way to get shut out is to suggest dualism. And saying they lean towards "physicalism" is misleading since "physicalism" is a poorly defined concept because its referrent is either some perfect physical theory...
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