Surendra Darathy wrote:Little Idiot wrote:My whole position is how the mental appears as the physical, that the physical is external to the body, but not eternal to the mind.
I understand that you have made this assertion, but what you have left hanging by this is the status of the "body". You say "external to the body" to make the category of "physical", which would seem to exclude the body from that category. Yet, you can cut off your nose, a part of your body, in order to spite your face. So, once you cut off your nose, and it's lying there on the kitchen floor, have you transmogrified it from the mental to the physical? What if I, external to your body, come into the kitchen and tweak your nose? In that case, your nose and I are still just mental phenomena to "you". Why does slicing off your nose with a carving knife, which I may do as easily as you, transform that nose from the mental to the physical simply by virtue of detaching your nose from your "body", making it "external"?
You have used the word "physical" and "body" and "external" without defining them very precisely. Your thinking about this issue is still very muddled:
Dont misunderstand your mixed up idea of whay I am saying with what I am actually saying.
The body is physical, obviously. It, along with the brain is part of the physical world.
Little Idiot wrote:It looks to me like you can not answer, since answering a question with a question doesnt count.
I decline to grant you status to ask questions which I must answer.
I assume you will recant this, when you pause for a moment and see what an arogant statement that is.
You have to agree this is a public forum for the exchange of ideas, you are not superior enough to me to be taken seriously with a comment like that.
You are still a witness testifying to your own philosophy, and are now pretending to cross-examine those who are only at the stage of examining your own testimony. You have brought your "philosophy" to a public forum, and are being examined on it; you are not in a position to claim your philosophy demonstrated in order to ask others to respond to your unproven claims. Your "philosophy" in in very great difficulty, Little Idiot, because you yourself have introduced the terms "physical", "external" and "body" as if they posed self-evident relationships. Entire fields of science are concerned with answering the question about how "bodies" incorporate organs called "brains", with very specific models of how brains and central nervous systems function as parts of bodies, and all you're doing here is cutting off your own nose to try to spite somebody else's face.
If you refuse to answer my questions, and expect me to answer yours, then our conversation is effectively over. I assume you are well aware of that. Neither I nor my philosophy are on trail, and you are not my judge.
Look at the title of the thread for a second, and you want to say I dont have a right to ask questions, only to answer them!
Little Idiot wrote:I have a case for that, which I have presented, be it right or wrong.
And your case, right or wrong, is a very muddled set of categories (mental, physical, body, and external) you have not yet properly sorted out. How it is you are not experiencing embarrassment about this is a mystery to me.
I am quite embarrassed by how you, as an intelligent man, can understand so little of what I am saying about the physical body being part of the physical world.
It makes me wonder what I could have said to give such a bad indication of my position.
Little Idiot wrote:You have not even presented a case for your position.
Explain again how the burden of proof is shifted to those who are simply questioning the confusion displayed in your presentation of your "mentalist philosophy". All you're doing is blaming the skepticism you receive on the disabilities of others. What disability are you suggesting? Does it have something to do with your being able to bend spoons mentally whereas your interlocutors cannot? No. Of course not. The disability you are nattering on about is "absence of gullibility".
I am asking a simple question, nothing to do with burden of proof, its an exchange of ideas, I ask, I answer and you ask, you answer. If its not that, then we are finished here.
Any confusion you pointed out here is
your confusion about what I say.
Skepticism, oh...So you dont believe in a physical world out there then? That would explain why you cant or wont defend the view point that there is a non-mental world.
Little Idiot wrote:So you decline to answer my simple question?
It doesnt look to me like the question is so far bellow you as to be worth an answer, so I will be well be making founded point when I say, in response to any mocking of my position, that you have not offered a case at all.
You mean, this question:
How do you know there is any non-mental world out there?
You gonna answer the question or not?
Yes, thats the one, its not a hard one, is it?
Placed in the context of slicing off noses with kitchen knives, I think I can say I've answered it. I can take your nose from the mental category of the strictly-mental universe and transfer it to the physical category of the strictly-mental universe simply by slicing it off so that it becomes (from your subjective perspective) external to your "body", whatever the fuck that is in your subjective mentalist universe. And you will say "Ouch" when I do so. I can do the same with your fingers, Little Idiot. I can slice off your mental finger, make it a physical object, and hand it to you on a silver platter. One might then say that I've given you the finger.
All you have done is display a total lack of understanding of what I am saying.
The body and nose are physical (and of course a subset of mental - they are also mental).
Cutting off a physical nose does not transfer it to the physical, it is physical already. (Thats so trivail that I am unsure if you are serious or if you are doing a parody on an answer to be honest).
The point is how do you know its not a mental universe?
I think the point is, you dont.
Maybe I need to break the question into simple pieces;
1. Do you know that there is a universe out there which is not a mental universe?
2. If so, how do you know this, do you have evidence?
Again; how do you know there is any non-mental world out there?
Define non-mental as you wish, but obviously I mean a world which is not mental.
Because you say "Ouch!" when I fucking slice off your empirical nose with an empirical kitchen knife. That this is ever so predictable is the essence of the empirical distinction between the empirical-neurologic (i.e., brain activity) and the empirical non-neurologic (the behavior, e.g. of empirical kitchen knives which don't self-animate and slice off any noses without being wielded by empirical hands attached to empirical bodies. Because you yourself will admit that the nose I have sliced off your face is now a physical object lying on the kitchen floor in your mental universe. That's because it is now "external" to your "body".
Still wrong; its physical before and after its removal, see above.
It's the difference between your dreaming that I sliced off your nose and your waking up every morning for the rest of your life without the capacity to mentally reconstitute the nose on your face because it's been sliced clean off. Your nose ends where my kitchen knife begins.
Not so. A dream is a subjective imagination, only seemingly real at the time of the dream to the individual dreamer. If I dream you cut off my nose, its still there in the waking world.
The physical world has a shared degree of reality, if you cut off my nose in the waking world, I may dream I have a nose, but alas on waking I will find the waking world has a higher level of reality - no nose!
The empirical non-mental is all wrapped up in non-self-animating kitchen knives and the sounds of people saying "Ouch" in very predictable fashion. So little happens that is not predictable from a non-mental perspective that you need to begin to account for it in your mentalist perspective. You could start with any non-physical instances of spoon-bending, Little Idiot, but there aren't any such events documented.
You have a spoon fixation, so for your delight and entertainemt I present; Yui Geller, he claims to bend spoons.
wiki and a 'scientific'
u-tube video and of course
website
An advanced intellect can consider fairly the merits of an idea when the idea is not its own.
An advanced personality considers the ego to be an ugly thing, and none more so that its own.
An advanced mind grows satiated with experience and starts to wonder 'why?'