So you deny that the product of chemical reactions are not the result of the ratio of the reagents? You just failed chemistry if so.
No, that's not the part I was disagreeing with.
I was disagreeing with your assertion that "
therefor, it's not a result of weighing the evidence".
Brain chemistry, rather, is the physical process by which weighing the evidence happens.
Your brain is what you do your thinking/reasoning with. Brain chemistry is how that process physically works.
It can only look at the options it was programmed with.
No. The whole point of machine learning (=the backbone of modern AI) is that the system becomes "smarter" through "experience".
And will only come up with the conclusions of problems that the programs can solve.
Sure. And our brains were "programmed" by our evolutionary history. As Krauss likes to say at times: "
our brains evolved to avoid being eating by lions in Africa".
And in the field of psychology, it is rather remarkable how many human psychological traits can be traced back to exactly that idea. Including human inclination for superstition and religious belief.
It makes perfect sense according to the laws of chemistry and if you believe that the brain is just chemicals with a little electricity thrown in.
Again, "thinking" is a process that occurs in the brain. The brain accomplishes this function by a physical process, which is brain chemistry.
You can disagree with it all you like, but you're simply going to miss the fact that it is true.
It's actually rather undeniable. You can put someone's brain in a scanner and like literally
see the brain activity as the subject is asked to think, reason, sing, brings up memories, etc.
Exactly, it is the "nonexistent" non physical mind that cures the physical body. That is the evidence.
No, it doesn't. There's no such thing.
I did, read the article I referenced above.
I did read it. It does not say what you claim it says.
13 things that do not make sense
If anything, it expresses several times that we do not know how it works exactly.
There is nothing in there that even mentions anything about people being
cured of any illness.
Read "Brain Death and Consciousness" especially the article by Pim van Lommel called "About the Continuity of Our Consciousness". p. 115.
He's not a neurologist and that's not a scientific paper.
Actual neurologists critique his ideas because he completely ignores actual nobel-prize-winning scientific knowledge concerning neurology.
I agree it is not restricted to reproductive organs, there are sex differences between brains too. And these people have male brains or female brains and yet claim to be the opposite sex.
You don't know that. You just would like that to be true and then just assert it as fact.
So far I have seen no one come up with such a cause, unless you can provide a citation.
Unlike you, I didn't assert it as fact. I said "likely".
It is what scientists expect to find, as they dig deeper into how the biology works and differs between males and females. It is also where all current data points to.
Please state what those biological causes are and your source. I have never heard such causes reported.
Causes of transsexuality - Wikipedia
Especially the part about transsexuality among twins is remarkable.
In one third of the identical twins where at least one was transsexual, both were transsexual. Which is a significant signal that transsexuallity might be heavily influenced by genetics. One third is a LOT.