10.29.08
Battle for your belief
The Battle For Your MInd
Much of the criticism of current scientism, here on the brain/mind question, is well-taken, but what finally is the alternative proposed? The best argument that the scientists have, it seems, is not that ‘materialism’ is scientific, but that reductionism cleared the air of a host of confused views on mind, soul, etc…
At that point the tide begins to turn, and the crucial question is the next step/
There a kind of Kantian critique of metaphysics stands in the way of going backwards toward reinjecting religious or theological views into the mind/brain void. The battle for the mind is prejudiced on both sides.
In any case, neither side has really resolved the engima of the brain. Materialism or not, there is something missing in our understanding there.