Same here.
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The mind is simply a function of the brain.
Do you have one? Don’t ask questions you already have an answer for.
Religious morality is indeed utopian. Maybe, maybe, we need to understand then better but the morality itself is static.
All Utopias are dystopias.
Where the mind exists.
Eh, I’m on the fence about that. You can actually change the physical structure of your brain by changing the ways you think and what you think about. There are limits to it but the interplay between ones brain and mind are very complex and intricate.
The mind does not exist outside of the brain. There can be no interplay between the mind and the brain since you can’t separate the two. If the mind can change the structure of the brain what is really happening is the brain changing its own structure via one of its functions, the mind.
You can’t block laser darts with Wonder Woman bracelets!!!
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You may be able to, from the fecal position.
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I think you make a jump by implying that any static moral code means utopian. Anyways, whether it’s utopian or not is more along the lines of persuasion than argument.
There does seem to be a strain of thought that goes something like “if everyone believed and behaved in accordance with this code, then everything would be great”. I don’t think it’s utopian in the case of Islam or Christianity because it isn’t expected to happen until after things get very bad first in the end times.
I don’t get the sense that you are talking about a supposed afterlife, which I would agree is often depicted as utopian/dystopian
Why do you say that all utopias are dystopias?
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Utopia, the island in the book Utopia by Thomas More, became “utopia” after a war. Besides, utopian literature depicts places which already exist, in a fictional sense of course. They are not prophecies. However, the Nazi utopia was something that went from the imagination to an attempt to make it real and it could easily be described as apocalyptic.
All Utopias are dystopias. I don’t think anyone would really want to live on More’s island, Campanella’s City of the Sun or in Christianopolis. Utopias are antiliberal states.
So if you were to extract 2 brains with roughly the same genetics, by your logic, you should be able to create similar if not the exact same thoughts\ ideas if given the same bio-electric stimulus, right?
I know somethings about a conscious, but I don’t know what ‘it’ is. And some of them, in some people can be horribly misinformed.
You can block them with Wonder Woman…
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Imagine a number… any number. Now try to touch it, feel it, see it or smell it. The number is a metaphysical form. Your brain can access it, but it cannot alter it, invent it, or do anything other than acknowledge it.
Why? Because the number doesn’t exist in your brain. If a big asteroid blew up the entire solar system, that number still exists, and is still true.
The brain is a tool, an organ. It has a sixth sense, it has access to logic and reason. It didn’t create it, it discovered it. If it created it, it could change it, but it cannot because it does not belong to the brain.
Thought experiment… If all Christians behaved according to Chrisitanity’s tenets and there were no hypocrites, would you still have a problem with it?
Is that a question or a statement disguised as one?
Thoughts exist in the brain. The brain exists in reality. Thoughts exist in reality.
Where did the human brain discover reason?
The jury is out on what those tenets are. But if I were to look at Christian tenets in a general way I would answer as Odysseus who was not satisfied to live out his last days in Ithaca.