--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: <snip> > The best (or at least most important to us) of these > neurological misconceptions is the last in the list: The > mind and the brain are the same thing described in > different ways and they make us who we are.
You genuinely aren't aware that this is *the* most controversial proposition on this list of supposed misconceptions? The writer--a neuropsychologist-- is certainly aware of it. For him to proclaim that "the mind and the brain are the same thing described in different ways" as if it were established fact is absurd (and possibly deliberately deceptive). He may *wish* it were established fact because he believes in it so strongly, but the relationship of mind to brain is an extremely perplexing issue about which there are many passionate opinions and nothing remotely like a consensus, nor, as yet, any promising approach to nailing down the truth. > Trying to suggest one causes the other is like saying > wetness causes water. I doubt anyone has ever "tried to suggest" that the mind causes the brain. To say the brain causes the mind is more reasonable, like saying water causes wetness, but his rejection of causation either way amounts to a straw man given our lack of knowledge about the nature of the brain-mind relationship.
