Posted by 8 Miles on January 31, 2004, at 10:07:16
In reply to Well now.., posted by gabbix2 on January 30, 2004, at 22:42:47
Yes, Gabix2.
You succinctly restated what I was "trying to say." However, I think that my post rambled on so long (like this one will) that I left room for Racer or others to think my response was indeed emotionally, and not scientifically, made. I am not trying to refute anyone's ideology, I was merely writing what I felt, while trying to employ some of the logic used by the "NO" group to defeat their own arguement. In that, I restate that if depression is just a behavioral phenonmenon (w/o bio-physiologic causality) because it cannot be classified as a disease using pathological guidelines, then personality, beliefs and values must not exist because they can not be found as a presence in brain tissue. If both are true, then every tought idea, feeling, emotion and all elements we use to define "depression", are nothing but electro-chemical responses produced soley by neurotrophins firing off to the dendrites of our neurons. So, I guess this wouldn't be a good time to enquire of the board if we have "souls".
Let the games begin!
8 Miles
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