[MD] Mystics and Brains

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Platt]
> Perhaps when you get a moment or two you can explain how the interaction of
> nerves and chemistry in the brain produces an idea. 
> 
> [Case]
> I would direct you to John Searles who explains that ideas are phenomena of
> brain activity in the way the solidity is a feature of mass or warmth is a
> property of fire or brightness is a feature of light. 

Which is no explanation of all. Like saying a philosophy is a feature of words.

> Now if you could return the favor and explain how ideas can occur in the
> absence of nerves and chemistry, I would be very grateful.

That's easy. I refer you to Plato who argued that ideas are transcendent entities.
No less a light than Roger Penrose agrees.


 

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