tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906289.post6923812356716734902..comments2016-08-07T07:00:02.222-07:00Comments on Views, News and Pews: Why Dualism?Timothy V Reeveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03913020911593893925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906289.post-40055884270981733772009-02-01T11:21:00.000-08:002009-02-01T11:21:00.000-08:00Thanks for your thoughts "Thoughts". From your two...Thanks for your thoughts "Thoughts". From your two articles: <BR/><BR/><I>Personally, I do not believe that Descartes was right. Certainly he was right to notice that there is a problem modelling the form of the mind using primitive materialism but he was wrong to abandon physics. He should have said "I don't know how a pattern in the brain becomes a mind, maybe people in a thousand years time will figure out how a pattern in space and time can also be at a point".<BR/><BR/><BR/>So what are you? You are the events distributed in the space and time in your head - what people call a "mind". Now, really, you knew that all along didn't you? A man is his mind.<BR/><BR/>How your mind is made is a complete mystery. As a scientist I would guess that its components such as events, space and time, are the stuff of the ordinary world and we just don't know how they can come together as a mind. Another name for this spatio-temporal mind is the "soul".</I><BR/><BR/>I tend to agree.<BR/><BR/>I like your tentative probing nondogmatic approach to this difficult subject.Timothy V Reeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03913020911593893925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906289.post-38799050207299682262009-01-27T04:37:00.000-08:002009-01-27T04:37:00.000-08:00Perhaps Cartesian Dualism arose because once Desca...Perhaps Cartesian Dualism arose because once Descartes had tracked information into the brain he was left with no place from which this information could be seen. He resorted to an unextended place, a point in space, called the "Res Cogitans" (or soul). See <A HREF="http://newempiricism.blogspot.com/2009/01/dualism-is-physical-problem.html" REL="nofollow">Dualism is a physical problem</A> and <A HREF="http://newempiricism.blogspot.com/2009/01/nature-of-soul.html" REL="nofollow">The nature of the soul</A>.)Thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17866896441731516034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906289.post-53934128887851657642009-01-02T12:27:00.000-08:002009-01-02T12:27:00.000-08:00Gosh Timothy I had to break open the dictionary wi...Gosh Timothy I had to break open the dictionary window for that. I will have to take several reads to get clear on that but I will give it a go!!<BR/>Would you allow me to send you a copy of Pembers "earths earliest ages, Its a wonderfuly disturbing read that has helped me no end.<BR/>oooooohhhhhhhh clink clink ooooohhhhhh !!! (thats a ghost!!)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03686530785838937607noreply@blogger.com