Post by jonbain on Apr 1, 2022 7:38:47 GMT
Many years ago my girlfriend had acquired a piranha fish
that had been entombed in Perspex. It was quite a terrifically
ugly specimen to behold, about 9 inches across, frozen into
a Perspex cube, with its ugly rows of teeth permanently wide open.
I thought it would be amusing to put it into her fish tank as a decoration.
The gold fish in that tank however, did not see the joke,
swam right up to it, and out of sheer shock, floated belly-up.
There are many other such stories of, even people, dying of shock.
But how can we make sense of this in terms of the mind-body problem?
Surely it is clear that the mind is instructing the body to die, and
that such death cannot be caused by any physical process.
No doubt, the "biologists" will be able to sprout endless jargon,
claiming it is a physical process. And their countless minions will agree,
en masse, in unison, in the hope of getting some Pavlovian reward.
But how can we explain this in terms of the mind-body problem?
Do we die at the point we give up on living?
Or can it be a dualism, that can be causal from either
the mind or the body?
Or perhaps a perfect synchronicity exists between mind and body
such that it can appear causal from both directions in all situations?
Thoughts?
that had been entombed in Perspex. It was quite a terrifically
ugly specimen to behold, about 9 inches across, frozen into
a Perspex cube, with its ugly rows of teeth permanently wide open.
I thought it would be amusing to put it into her fish tank as a decoration.
The gold fish in that tank however, did not see the joke,
swam right up to it, and out of sheer shock, floated belly-up.
There are many other such stories of, even people, dying of shock.
But how can we make sense of this in terms of the mind-body problem?
Surely it is clear that the mind is instructing the body to die, and
that such death cannot be caused by any physical process.
No doubt, the "biologists" will be able to sprout endless jargon,
claiming it is a physical process. And their countless minions will agree,
en masse, in unison, in the hope of getting some Pavlovian reward.
But how can we explain this in terms of the mind-body problem?
Do we die at the point we give up on living?
Or can it be a dualism, that can be causal from either
the mind or the body?
Or perhaps a perfect synchronicity exists between mind and body
such that it can appear causal from both directions in all situations?
Thoughts?
