Thinking out loud - is there a way to find empirical evidence to support dualism?
I've been frustrated with the scientific research in consciousness. If you've read some of my other blog posts, you'll know that I am interested in the idea that the brain and mind are separate entities. If you subscribe to dualism, which I sometimes do, then physical / neuronal evidence of dualism can be tricky. The brain is involved in our thoughts in many ways. This is clear when we have physical effects on the brain such as the effects of alcohol, a bump on the head, or dementia. So to find evidence that the brain doesn't generate consciousness is difficult to tease out from all the noise in the brain. The mind and brain are so tightly coupled that its near impossible. I've thought about this a bit, and I was wondering if there could be some signs that might hint that the brain doesn't originate every thought. If you can prove this, you can weaken the stance that mind = brain. To take this on, I go with the assumption that all thoughts...