Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by dhw, Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 09:23 (4258 days ago) @ dhw

David, in my post to you last night I wrote something that didn't make sense. I must stop writing at night!-Van Lommel's image of the brain as a receiver IS what I understand by dualism, i.e. the physical brain receives and responds to signals from the non-physical mind. -My comment "Not as I understand it" should have referred to your interpretation of Nahmias's argument as meaning that the material brain produces a non-material mind. This suggestion goes too far for me, as I tried to explain later in my post (though I find all explanations of consciousness unlikely). In any case, I can't find it anywhere in his article ... he simply explains that free will involves conscious control, but doesn't ask where the capacity for conscious control might come from. He just indicates that we need a "more complete" scientific theory to account for it. -My apologies for the confusion.


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