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Quote by: ryanatau  We are not sure whether the brain constitutes the mind. Your argument, I am sure, is that a person missing parts of their brain have decreased mental capacity. However, it could also be thought that the brain is the place that the mind and body connect (some what like Descartes postulated but with more sophistication). When part of the brain is missing the mind losses control of the body. I am not personally a dualist but it is a thought. |
And as you may know, Descartes' postulation sparked the mind-body problem that many philosophers tried to solve and is still unresolved to this day. How is it that immaterial substance can affect matterial things? There is no good explanation and most appeal to ignorance and cop out by saying "it's impossible to know how it works", "magic" (or some version of saying this), "through god's unknowable powers", etc.