A Ghost in the Machine?

[paradigm man]

How does the nonmaterial mind interact with the material brain?

How does the mental world interact with the physical world?

Sir John Eccless , Nobel Prize winner, believed that the supplementary motor area of the brain is where the nonmaterial mind interacted with the material brain.

What's your opinion(s) on this matter?

 

[phantasma]

How does the nonmaterial mind interact with the material brain?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this "nonmaterial mind" kind of like a really advanced electric circuit, and our mind runs on electricity?

How does the mental world interact with the physical world?

Through the brain I suppose...

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

The non-material mind is an emergent property of the physical brain. Thoughts, emotions, ideas, experiences - all can be changed and invoked by the right chemical or electrical stimuli.

Consequently, there is no difficulty in the mental world involving itself with the physical - both physical and mental activity derive from the same place.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

How does the nonmaterial mind interact with the material brain?

How does the mental world interact with the physical world?

Sir John Eccless , Nobel Prize winner, believed that the supplementary motor area of the brain is where the nonmaterial mind interacted with the material brain.

What's your opinion(s) on this matter?

By "nonmaterial mind" do you mean the soul?

This post reminded me of an interview I once read where Richard Dawkins talks about the brain being a biological computer (true) and thoughts and ideas are essentially software. He considers religion to be the equivelant to a mental virus that infiltrates the mind. Below is a link to the interview transcript.

http://www.skeptic.com/03.4.miele-dawkins-iv.html

 

[KleinerApfel]

Dawkins, being an atheist, doesn't believe in the human soul, but I'm assuming that all Christian evolutionists do.

That being so, at what point would you say the soul evolves?

God bless all, Susana

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

Soul is an emergent property of a complex brain. I suspect, therefore, that many other animals have rudimentary "souls".

Whether these creatures will be resurrected is a completely different question.