Brains Cars Minds

The relationship between the physical brain, the physical world, and that thing we call the mind is, for me at least, a real source of confusion. I suspect that some of that confusion is a result of thinking of the mind as some kind of object (revealed in the use of the direct article 'the'). The conceptualisation of the mind as an object saturates a lot of our/my language to the extent that I'm not sure I could escape it if I wanted to, but it does underpin this odd and uncomfortable substance dualism which I find myself falling into. A better alternative would be to think of the mind as a process rather than an object; something that the brain does, in rather the same way that 'moving' is something a car does. It still feels uncomforablly unintelligible but I think largely because there isn't a good vernacular linguistic environment to support a process model of mind.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• mind
• brain
• supervenience
• psychology
• metaphor
• analogy
• consciousness
• process
• philosophy
• language
• substance
• dualism

[unseenstrings]

I've heard toddlers refer to food as "bite." They too tend to turn the action into an object. When you combine this tendency with the ideas presented in the video, "No Time to Think" by googletechtalks, I suspect you have a pretty good foundation for so much of the confusion in the world today. I don't believe the average human has the cognitive ability (and possibly even capacity) to absorb and decipher much of the information that he (or she) is bombarded with on a daily basis.

Naturalism Org

[Valefarous]

Maybe objects are events which 'be' persistently for long enough to 'thing'... haha...

[almafarag]

and not even the derivations of the mind i.e. words are objects, words are events between speakers and this, I think, expresses in a material manner how the mind is a process of pattern negotiation,

as a matter of fact, I just made a feebly argued video about 'comprehension as being an event', though it takes 7 hours to get it uploaded, but I will attach it as a response to this video