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I actually quite enjoyed the trippy squishy brains and drainpipe reverb [6]. I also like that he went into as much detail as he did spelling out his logic. I found his arguments generally clear and that made it easy to spot where exactly I disagreed with him, which happened early and often.
We would have peace in the Middle East before I could write a rebuttal to all of his points, but...
>There is only pure darkness within the skull. The redness is nowhere to be found.
Like every party to this debate, the materialist must distinguish between the first-person perspective (I'm seeing red) and the third-person perspective (Joe is seeing red). I can't see Joe's red, I can only see Joe's brain. We find ourselves in very different causal relationships with his experience, as any sane materialist would expect. This doesn't speak to the question of whether materialism can explain qualia (short answer: not entirely yet, but neither can any non-materialist alternative).
>The mind transcends the brain.
He really likes the word "transcends" but I never know quite what sense he means that in. The seemingly innocent assumption that we can speak intelligibly of something called "the mind" merits questioning, for reasons mentioned by Bob Garrett in Brain and Behavior.
>At the risk of sounding provocative, I will say that there is no such thing as mind. It exists only in the sense that, say, weather exists; weather is a concept we use to include rain, wind, humidity, and related phenomena. We talk as if there is a weather when we say things like "the weather is interfering with my travel plans." But we don't really think there is a weather. Most, though not all neuroscientists believe that we should think of the mind in the same way; it is simply the collection of things that the brain does, such as thinking, sensing, planning, and feeling. But when we think, sense, plan, and feel, we get the compelling impression that there is a mind behind it all, guiding what we do. Most neuroscientists say this is just an illusion, that the sense of mind is nothing more than an awareness of what our brain is doing. Mind, like weather, is also just a concept; it is not a something; it does not do anything.[<-typed that shit out of a book!]