Brandon, doesn't it strike you that he is embracing a kind of Cartesianism with that conception of reason? No self respecting philosopher these days would take the 'ghost in the machine' idea seriously.
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Not true. The Identity Thesis has only been established in recent years.
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What the fuck does identity theory have to do with this?? Listen to the scientists - the philosophers in this area are mostly blowing hot air.
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Reason is defined as "the process through which human beings perform thought." You had to employ reason in order to think of a cow.
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So all thought emanates from reason. Even creative expression, word play. Whatever. You are just making up definitions, definitions that go against many of the ordinary uses of the word. But then you take your unconventional definitions and apply them in the same way as the conventional definitions. You want us to think you are talking about reason, when you aren't talking about it AT ALL. A philosophical abuse of language, language going on holiday.