Frank wrote on Jan 6
th, 2023 at 3:33pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 6
th, 2023 at 2:56pm:
Frank wrote on Jan 6
th, 2023 at 2:47pm:
Reason.
ah-ha, I see, so ...
0n what basis do you propose we examine
the reasons for various opposing political philosophies /ideologies....?
Answer: "reason".
Oh dear, like a dog chasing its tail....
Don't be so stupid. It is not the dog chasing its tail, it's you being an idiotic parrot who never stops to think for a minute because you have mindless idiocies to parrot.
Oh dear....the usual prelude....now let's see what you've got in the way of
rational argument:
Quote: Only reason can tell you ANYTHING about the brain.
Mein Gott, you failed in the very first sentence.
Knowledge about the
physiology of the brain can only be gained by scientific research and discovery.
You could sit about forever 'reasoning', and never learn anything about the brain's physiology, as the reasoning of the ancients was so confined.
You are in effect saying the brain's physiology - and associated unconscious motivations alongside conscious reasoning - has no effect on reasoning, an obvious absurdity. Only humans with a cortex ("thinking") brain are capable of reasoning.
Quote:Political, ideological, philosophical, aesthetic, literary, medical, neighbourhood, siblings' or lovers' disputes existed long before brain structures were examined and theorised about,
Exactly, as I already noted above.
Quote:as did every other kind of dispute, disagreement, theory about government, colours, angels, heavenly bodies, diseases, the afterlife, morals, what the moon is made of or what is on its other side, the secret lives of butterflies, Atlantis, etc, etc, etc.
yes, moving along (please).... waiting for the punch line....
Quote:If different ideas about politics and brain physiology are all about brain physiology...
Another error:
oppositional political ideologies exist BECAUSE of human brain physiology and the resulting ability to think independently, possessed by humans; they are not ABOUT brain physiology itself, they are about (reasoning about) the (conflicting) ideologies.
Quote:- then everything is determined by brain physiology.
well, the human condition - naturally competitive (inter alia, owing to the individual's ego), yes.
Quote:But how do you examine brain physiology? At the light of reason.
With an electron microscope....employing reason, eg, theory, as well as induction and deduction.
You are your own parody.
Reason-the power of the mind to think in a logical way, to understand and have opinions, etc.
Only human beings are capable of reason (= of thinking in a logical way, etc.).