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Does anyone here view the mind as merely the sum total of the very hard to calculate (if not chaotic) operations of the brain? Does anyone else have such a "human as a unorthodox machine" perspective on humanity? Does anyone reject the causually obstructive notions of non-physical causation and "vital" mental forces beyond the domain of the physical world?

If so, please help me sustain a witty threat sumarizing the adjective-loaded physicalistic conceptions of life.

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I will desolate your preconceptions of a holistic and unreversable mind through demonstrating my collected learnings of my environment through the rigourous application of the scientific method in parallel with other researchers, by stimulating your photonic sensory apparatus through the medium of ascii text thusly...

I couldn't cram in much wit, a start I suppose.

I don't think that was precisely what you were looking for. I would none the less say something like that (though far more concise) if I was to enbark on an explanation to a person with such beliefs.

Sorry, I believe in a mind, a body, a spirit orangutan, an art fairy... etc etc etc.

I find dualism too reductionist.

The problem is that you're looking to add a total summation of personal experiences on top of a genetic predisposition for different interpretations and, even within that, how one might sway one way or another within those limited interpretations.


Things can't be put into a little box but genres can help us find a general map at times.


/the chaos star reveals all while being too esoteric and broad for most to comprehend fully

Yep. I'm an eliminative materialist.

There just isn't one thing called the mind.

The brain builds internal models of objects in it's environment. It also builds one about itself. We call it our mind.