Posted by crepuscular on April 17, 2002, at 13:45:44
In reply to Need help to refute the anti-biological camp, posted by Chris A on April 17, 2002, at 13:02:34
with respect to bipolar disorder, how does one explain the 75% concordance rate between twins raised apart? surely any reasonable person must conclude that some pre-existing causal factor is responsible.
how does one explain why some people can be exposed to absolutely horrendous childhoods and still turn out stable & happy, while others with normal, even exceptionally healthy upbringings, are plagued with mental illness?
have any of these people observed a floridly schizophrenic person close up? psychosis is so obviously a deficit in *the physical act of thinking* that one is hard pressed to explain it any other way (short of possession i suppose).
why would a person think the brain, unlike any other organ of the body, be exempt from physical failure of one sort or another?
i think these people do not believe that the brain is a physical object. to be sure, the epiphenomenon of thought & personality cannot be reduced to synaptic interactions alone, but the physical substrate is a major player. to deny this is to deny the entire project of scientific inquiry.
i'll go even further, it is a denial of modernity.
people like this are "flat earthers" in my estimation...
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