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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.sci,net.misc
Subject: Re: Mind and Brain
Message-ID: <1396@proper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Jun-84 23:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 22 23:37:00 1984
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Keywords: behaviorism,brain,mind,Plato,dead greeks

"subconsious", "mind", etc -- what DO these words mean?  More
importantly, do these things exist?

I assert they do not.  I take the behaviorist philosophy that what
you call "mind" is a thing invented by Plato or some dead Greek
person which is just as mystical and unreal as "the Gods" or
"magic."

What you have is a brain.  What you do is behavior.  You are an
organism that responds to AND IS CHANGED BY your environment.
That's all.  The rest you've made up or assumed was true because
some dead greek person said it was there.

Show me your "mind" -- demonstrate its existence.  I dare you.


(oh dear, he's doing it again ...)
-- 

Gordon A. Moffett

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