It’s that mush between your ears, Tony. Remove it and you don’t exist. There is nothing else. You are a brain in a mobile vat. A little slide show of memories. Access to which makes you ‘you’. If you had my memories you would be me. You are only aware of being Tony because you have Tony’s memories.
Did someone say they couldn’t? You should study some. Although a few require an acceptance of some really wierd supernatural beliefs if you want to become a fully paid up member. You’d probably find almost all of them a little strange.
I’m a bit offended–and I rarely get offended, BTW.
ID is to science as Ken Ham is to boat building.
That is difficult calculation but a rough estimate can be obtain from the ratio atheist to theist.
Well, we could destroy your brain and see if you still had awareness of yourself. We could put it into a vat and see if you were still you, albeit without all those fleshy appendages. We could remove your brain bit by bit and watch you slowly dissapear.
Wasn’t there a science-fiction movie called “The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”?
And of course, the wonderful Man With Two Brains with Steve Martin as Dr. Hfuhruhurr and the de-lovely Kathleen Turner.
Where on earth do you think it is?
What the…?
Unless you are a completely biological determinist, the argument you present is not exactly so simple. There is the brain-mind-body-culture multiple dimension, which psychologists talk about. The brain can be modified by culture and experience; it has what is called bioplasticity. For example, there is a tribe that cannot differentiate between the colors green and blue. When they look at an object of either color, they visually perceive the SAME color. Why is this? It is not because there is any neurological structural impairment or abnormal functioning of their brain. Rather, it is because the language of their culture has only one word for both colors. Culture, including our native language, can in fact change our perception of the world even though the brain itself is not altered. There are many other examples. One such is that poorer children have been found to perceive coins as of a larger size than they are in reality. This has to do with their socioeconomic background and sociocultural context. Many psychological studies have been conducted which reveal that the mind rather than the brain per se, which is shaped by culture, exerts a powerful influence on perception and cognition.
Where in DaddyGirl’s post do you see the assertion that science will find the answers? You keep arguing against straw man arguments.
This is incredibly tiresome. You keep arguing against assertions that I haven’t made. Worse, you continue to argue even when I have explicitly stated that I don’t hold those views. It strikes me that this is the tactic of desperation because you can’t justify your own position or sensibly argue against mine.
No, I don’t think so. Attributes themselves can be intangible. But those attributes are generated and caused by the activity of a tangible brain.
Bradski has already answered this. Awareness and self-control are emergent properties of human, and perhaps also (depending on your definitions) some non-human, brains.
There is no part of the brain to which consciousness itself is attributed. This is defined as the “hard problem” of consciousness.