Re: Leibniz's mill and the "Hard problem of consciousness"
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 2:20 pm
How do you mean that the assumption that the mind is the workings of the brain has stymied any real advance in psychology? Are you one of the "mind does not exist" crowd?David Swift wrote:Greta wrote:What evidence do you have that the mind is in the brain? It seems to me that, that assumption has stymied any real advance in psychology for more than two thousand years. Time to wake up and consider alternatives.I agree with all of that, aside from the claim that I didn't realise it. That is not the point. The point is: where physically are these imperfect mental models within the stuff of reality? In the mind? That means in the brain. Where in the brain? That's my perception of the thread's conundrum.
The mind has been developed by evolution, albeit unwittingly, to produce homeostasis until reproduction. In that cause, it selects behavior in response to current reality using a four-step, two-stage algorithm. That algorithm selects on the basis of most pleasure/ least pain as reflexively felt in our evaluative sense organs.
Philosophy owes more to science than rehashing the same old concepts over and over. Who cares how many angles can dance on the head of a pin?
It seems that you are just parrotting materialist orthodoxy - all very obvious and completely avoids the question. BTW, your attempt to paint me as a theist was almost witty.