[lbo-talk] Re: therapy vs drugs

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Tue Aug 12 13:06:08 PDT 2003


Doug Henwood wrote:


> And how do you know that brain chemistry doesn't depend on mental
> states? Repeated stresses/insults/disappointments/injuries could
> change the biochemistry, no?

The view that "all mental states depend on brain chemistry" is itself a mental state. In what sense can it be "knowledge" if, as this implies, it is a biochemical phenomenon?

Ted



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