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Why is it bad to swallow toothpaste? How is flouride dangerous?
Does freezing a mentos in an icecube then putting it in someone's coca cola then waiting for it to melt work?
Does freezing a mentos in an icecube then putting it in someone's coca cola then waiting for it to melt work?
Depends on what school of thought you subscribe to.Are the brain and the mind the same thing?
One undeniably exists, the other appears to be an emergent phenomenon.If not, whats the difference?
Sentience to the point of sapience.What is intelligence?
A centralised nervous system collating sensory data, coordinating the body, planning, and recognising patterns.How does intelligence work?
Synaptic pathways.What is the mechanism of intelligence?
Yes, and I don't need to embolden the key words either.Do you have the intelligence to answer these questions?
Depends on what school of thought you subscribe to.
So you are familiar with the brain but not the mind?One undeniably exists, the other appears to be an emergent phenomenon.
Any idea how the centralized nervous system is able to achieve these feats?A centralised nervous system collating sensory data, coordinating the body, planning, and recognising patterns.
I'm familiar with both. The brain is a physical thing you can hold, the mind is not.So you are familiar with the brain but not the mind?
3.5 billion years of evolution making our brains more and more complex and better at said feats. The brain becomes better at recognising patters, better at creation abstractions, better at predicting the future. All these lead to conciousness, to sentience, to sapience, to the mind.Any idea how the centralized nervous system is able to achieve these feats?
I prefer this school of thought: "For who has known the mind of the Lord...?" But we have the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16).Solipsism, because it has the best name ever.
Solipsism: the philosophical idea that one's own mind is all that exists...knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist.
So, is the mind metaphysical?I'm familiar with both. The brain is a physical thing you can hold, the mind is not.
I guess “sapiens” are the luckiest ever.3.5 billion years of evolution making our brains more and more complex and better at said feats. The brain becomes better at recognising patters, better at creation abstractions, better at predicting the future. All these lead to conciousness, to sentience, to sapience, to the mind.
But you do see a connection between the brain and mind, right?Don't get me wrong, the nature of the mind is one of the biggest mysteries in science.
Sounds like you could be describing a mini universe in our heads, electricity and all.What it is, how it works, etc, are all big questions. But we know a lot about the mind nonetheless.
Depends what you mean by 'metaphysical'.So, is the mind metaphysical?
If you consider sapience to be a good thing, then yes, we are.I guess sapiens are the luckiest ever.
Indeed:Why are sapiens so lucky to compare to the others? Why cant birds find it more convenient to build a roof over their nests? After so many billions of years of rain-fall and sun-heat you would think they would at least learn to build roofs. Aren't they suppose to adapt?
Of course. Alter the brain's chemistry, and the mind is equally altered.But you do see a connection between the brain and mind, right?
Beyond the physical.Depends what you mean by 'metaphysical'.
I said "build roofs", not make a mess of somebody's own.Indeed:
Can I be made to alter my decision every time?Of course. Alter the brain's chemistry, and the mind is equally altered.
Which begs the question: what is the 'physical'? What differentiates something 'physical' from something 'metaphysical'?Beyond the physical.
The point stands: evolution has equipped various bird species with the capability to build nests in shelters, be it beneath foliage, underground, or in handy man-made outcrop.I said "build roofs", not make a mess of somebody's own.
Every time what? I don't understand the questionCan I be made to alter my decision every time?
Beyond the physical.
Well I didn't build my own eitherI said "build roofs", not make a mess of somebody's own.
With the right chemicals probably.Can I be made to alter my decision every time?
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