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In article <1992Sep11.224807.13323@math.ucla.edu> barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>Dualism is simply another form of mysticism. Its the same old
>premise: we don't understand something, therefore there must 
>be a paranormal phenomena at work. 

What mysticism? I don't know what you're railing at.  There's
absolutely nothing paranormal going on at all.  The two
incontrovertible facts at issue here are as plain and mundane as the
nose on your face: there are physical phenomena such as objects, and
there are mental phenomena such as sensations.  And a mystery: how are
they so different?

>I take the historical perspective: this argument has failed in 
>so many contexts, as science one by one develops the understanding, 
>that we should expect this sort of argument to fail again.
>
>The 'soul'  has hopped from organ to organ, as each organs
>function has been elucidated. It used to reside in the heart, 
>and at another point, the kidney, and its come to its final resting
>place in the brain. The brain is harder to unravel than than the heart or 
>kidney, but folks are making steady progress, and I'm sure we'll 
>live to see it exorcised from the brain as well.

Who said anything about a soul?  What's that got to do with anything?
Do you really think that such things as affect, blueness, and the
sonority of a major triad will be exorcised someday?  Why would anyone
want to do that?


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Kevin McCarty (kmc@netcom.com)