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Biotech / Medical : The Fraud of Biological Psychiatry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (87)	8/9/2000 9:24:48 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 444

A man was walking down a beach, and accidentally kicked a bottle out of the sand. He opened the bottle, and a genie appeared. The genie said, "I am so grateful to get out of that bottle that I will grant you one wish. I can only grant one. And nothing about 'I wish for three wishes.'" The man thought for a while and finally said, "I have always wanted to go to Hawaii. I've never been able to go because airplanes are much too frightening for me and boats make me seasick. So I wish for a road to be built from here to Hawaii." The genie thought for a few minutes and said, "That's too hard. Imagine all the work involved. All the piling to hold up the highway needed and all the pavement. Ask for something else." "Well," the man said. "I would like to be able to understand women. What makes them laugh and cry, why are they temperamental, why are they so difficult for me to get along with? Tell me what makes them tick." The genie replied: "Two lanes or four?"

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (87)	8/10/2000 3:30:55 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 444

I think your argument presupposes its own correctness. How about... The anesthetic shut down part, but not all of your brain. The rest was still functioning, and lacking external input (which was shut down by that anesthetic) made it up. In other words, you <dreamed, hallucinated, pick your word> that you were outside your body watching the surgery. Or we can supposes that there exist some non-physical "something" inside of you that, in spite of being non-physical, operates your brain. This non-physical something maintains your personality, abilities, and memories. This non-physical thing is, of course, unaffected by physical things like drugs, and, so, when the brain it normally operates is shut down by drugs, it can leave it and wander about and react to physical things like electromagnetic waves- -in spite of the fact that the organs (the eyes) that it normally is dependent on to do that are now non-functional. And then we apply Occam's Razor....