alex3619
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One of the things that is disturbing about the redefined dualism that claims to be monism is that mind and brain are one but they don't like talking about physical treatments, especially since most drug therapies they have touted do not work.
I wish closet dualists would own up, and not claim to be monists.
As a moniist in mind-brain theory I go so far as to say the mind does not exist. Its a throwback to magic, demonic possession and miasma as a cause of disease. Mind is simply a label we use to describe what we see in some aspects of brain function. Its a description of outcomes and process of brain. As a label its convenient, but its not a substantive thing, and certainly not tangible.
However, like concepts such as justice and love, the concept of mind does have some relevance to how we talk about things. Its a good linguistic label in some cases, but it becomes confusing because we start to think of it as real.
If body-mind-social, or biopsychosocial, views are accurate, and if it follows that they are interconnected and mind can correct body, and social can correct mind then:
It follows that two way interconnectness means that body can correct mind, and so society. So we can fix society by giving the right pills, if only we can find out what they are. This is the same logic, but it reverses causality to what they claim. It makes the fallacies more obvious.
I wish closet dualists would own up, and not claim to be monists.
As a moniist in mind-brain theory I go so far as to say the mind does not exist. Its a throwback to magic, demonic possession and miasma as a cause of disease. Mind is simply a label we use to describe what we see in some aspects of brain function. Its a description of outcomes and process of brain. As a label its convenient, but its not a substantive thing, and certainly not tangible.
However, like concepts such as justice and love, the concept of mind does have some relevance to how we talk about things. Its a good linguistic label in some cases, but it becomes confusing because we start to think of it as real.
If body-mind-social, or biopsychosocial, views are accurate, and if it follows that they are interconnected and mind can correct body, and social can correct mind then:
It follows that two way interconnectness means that body can correct mind, and so society. So we can fix society by giving the right pills, if only we can find out what they are. This is the same logic, but it reverses causality to what they claim. It makes the fallacies more obvious.
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