Evidence #4
Oh. My. God.
Remember: what Egnor is arguing that the mind is an immaterial entity that is not dependent on brain activity for its existence.
His fourth piece of evidence for this claim? That some patients who are in a vegetative state still show evidence of mental activity.
What is this evidence?
That functional MRI will show evidence of brain activity in these patients.
I am not making this up. Watch for yourself it you don’t believe me.
Egnor himself, in his own argument, is relying on the presumption that mental activity arises from brain activity. The very thing he is trying to argue against. An eliminative materialist could make the same argument he uses here.
Unbelievable.