On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I think mind is a spiritual thing
divorced from my body and that goes on after my body dies. That
explains a lot, especially how it is that my mind experiences its
existence, such as the terrible itch on the scab on my knee I got being
reckless on a bicycle -- what is an "itch" anyway and how in creation
can molecules and electrons moving around generate this experience in my
mind?
The rest of the time I realize that if I get Alzheimer's or something
like that my mind will dissolve, so it seems a good predictor of what
will happen when I die, and even though the experience of "qualia" is a
more difficult problem than the typical materialist is capable of
understanding, the fact that I see no way to understand it doesn't mean
there can't be a way.
Quanta and so on are fascinating but seem irrelevant to all this. More
important is the old criticism of Cartesian Dualism, how does mind move
the body?
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