Do you believe that the human mind exists?
Look at all the incredible things that have been conceived by the human mind. Exploring the earth, then challenging the oceans to find other parts of the world. Later challenging the solar system, the distant galaxies, and even the universe. The wheel, fire, husbandry, agriculture, the written word, numbers. Germ theory. Engineering, mining, manufacturing, physics, electronics, medicine. Philosophy, monetary systems, arts, locomotion. All ideas conceived by the human mind.
How could the mind not exist? But have you ever seen the human mind? There are no photos of the mind, there are no jars containing the mind in laboratories and medical schools. Nor are there anatomical drawings or dissections of the mind. We accept on faith that the mind exists because we see evidence of it's existence.
Let's go to the store and buy a jar of gravity. Or maybe a small beaker or a test tube full. We aren't really out of gravity, but it would be nice to keep and emergency supply. We know that gravity is a thing, but we have never seen it. What is proposed in the first sentence can't be done; there are not containers of gravity in the store, or anywhere else. No one has ever seen it, but we have faith that gravity exists and is omnipresent.
I was thinking that I need a jar of fresh Higgs' bosuns. Maybe I can order one from Amazon via the portal here on Lem's. They exist, we are told, and proof of their existence lies at the end of massively complicated mathematics. Physicists and mathematicians confirm their existence, even though they have never seen them.
It's interesting how some people claim that God cannot not exist because they can't see God, can at the same time believe that the human mind, gravity, the Higgs bosun, and a whole plethora of other things that they have never seen can exist.
Palm Sunday musings. Carry on.
