tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182862650840932810.post3381130505652326886..comments2023-09-30T01:47:44.976-07:00Comments on ArenaMan: The Self and Its BrainDavid Carreonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11816955307668560061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182862650840932810.post-47851328464818110562009-04-02T07:08:00.000-07:002009-04-02T07:08:00.000-07:00Dualism is in many ways the child of materialism. ...Dualism is in many ways the child of materialism. If the simple flow of material is used to analyse our experience we are left with either suggesting an homunculus or something like Descartes' "Res cogitans" (the soul in the pineal gland). The fallout from this is the belief that either materialism is true without the soul or dualism is true. Of course the correct answer is that the theory that we are due to simple flows of stuff from place to place is false because it cannot account for our experience without introducing homunculi or unphysical proposals. See <A HREF="http://newempiricism.blogspot.com/2009/03/materialist-should-read-this-first.html" REL="nofollow">Materialists should read this first</A>Thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866896441731516034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182862650840932810.post-32366440726189643612009-03-07T12:52:00.000-08:002009-03-07T12:52:00.000-08:00http://www.philosophos.com/philosophy_article_143....http://www.philosophos.com/philosophy_article_143.html<BR/>Excellent and refreshing article touching lightly on the topic.<BR/><BR/>Also, for your viewing pleasure:<BR/><BR/>Up from the mineral and mud and ore,<BR/>from mildew and bacterium <BR/>and mold and thallophyte and spore <BR/>to fungus, rust, and diatom; <BR/> <BR/>from moss and fern and flowering seed <BR/>to coral, fluke, and sponge, and from <BR/>flatworm and snail and centipede <BR/>to swamp to land until we come <BR/> <BR/>to mouse, to monkey--to the brain <BR/>that grew in tandem with the thumb: <BR/>To tell exactly how we came <BR/>from clay is easy. But explain <BR/>the place inside the cranium <BR/>where all that clay turns into flame.<BR/><BR/>Deborah Warren<BR/>New Criterion January 01, 2002Tedmohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07314210773370418908noreply@blogger.com