Posted: Apr 09, 2022 1:59 pm
Destroyer wrote:The conviction is that mind and brain are fundamentally the same property
More of the standard idiocy we've come to expect from you, Patrick. The word "brain" has a clear referent (that is, in the sense that "kidney" does). On the other hand, "mind" does not have a referent, and people, especially folks like you, make up whatever they like about it. So, "Theory of Mind" has a word with no referent in its name. It's a discussion of something, so it's going to be up to you to make up some brand new shit about it.
Destroyer wrote:2. There is no reason why science, in its study of the brain, i.e., neuroscience, will not advance sufficiently to make reliable predictions about mental states and concepts
Yes, there are good reasons, which you know nothing about, apparently. You shall get the same advice I give zoon about looking into computational complexity. Someone who pretends that making "reliable predictions about mental states" using the findings of neuroscience needs to read more than the crap that science popularizers churn out about neuroscience and its hot topics.
As with the rest of discussion relating to what zoon has said about theory of mind, neuroscience and prediction, it's going to be another round of hedging about what the word "reliable" denotes. Heuristics by themselves are not predictions. Expectations are regularly not met, and that says bundles about "reliability".