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Originally Posted by avandonk
-I can suggest a mechanism where all matter is for ever 'linked' and that is quantum entanglement. How quantum entanglement can effect the behaviour af ravens I have no idea. Coincidence is far more likely.
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Coincidence is a possible explanation but this has been observed over centuries so it is a thin possibility. |
Consider: correlation is not causation.
The causal relationship I assert, is in the mind .. not in the real world.
I know of three different types of reality (some credits to Bert & others):
1. Physical Reality (or, Reality in the Real World): Reality in the Real World is characterised by the following powerful example: ”Jack Russell dogs exist because they can be measured, weighed and characterised, repeatedly, by anyone (not just me) !
2. Individual Reality (in one’s own mind): Example (i): ”I imagined that giant Jack Russell dogs exist then I observed a big mountain that must’ve been caused by a giant Jack Russell. So therefore, giant Jack Russells are real, (but nobody else knows that, except me).
Example (ii) : Feeling hungry - hunger is real, folks but when I’m hungry I’m the only one who knows it !
3. Reality by Consensus: Eg: What politicians practise - eg: ”Giant Jack Russells exist because me, my mate and everyone else agrees that they do - so they are real”.
3.1. Reality by consensus on a common demoninator (yet to be ratified): "Giant Jack Russells exist because me, my mate and everyone else agrees that they do, but none of us agree on exactly what a giant Jack Russell is”. (For this one: Credits to: Bert's Jack Russell, Steven's denomination).
… All a little light-hearted, but there is a point in it all. Mixing the four distinctions invariably results in confusion (and occasionally, delusion).
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Originally Posted by Brian W
Agreed. However the above indicates that you believe you know where the mind is located. I certainly would accept that science knows where the brain is located but this is the first time that I have heard of where the mind has been located.
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Brian, if the brain dies, or the head is chopped off, or the organ is anaesthetised, 'mind' is absent.
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Or perhaps they are merely wrong. When my wife was in her early 20's she had all the answers. Now that she is 45 and has earned a doctoral she does not even think she has all the questions. In her early 20's I do not believe she was either delusional or lying but she sure was wrong.
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Why limit this example to your wife ?
How about yourself ?
(It works for me as well.
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Cheers