> I
> find it difficult to understand why people are so resistant to the
> idea that
> all our "higher" intellectual and affective states are in fact
> functions of
> the human brain chemistry. If it is not chemistry then what is
> it? Souls,
> spirits, and all that metaphysical mumbo jumbo? How can a rational
> person
> can seriously consider such hogwash that does not even have an
> empirical
> meaning?
On your metaphysical assumptions, it must (like these assumptions themselves, "empirical meaning", your difficulty in understanding, and your certainty that metaphysical assumptions inconsistent with your own are irrational "hogwash") a function of human brain chemistry.
Ted