Suppose the brain is the Ego, the mind, the soul, the intellect, the self, that mental events are distinct from physical events, and non-redundant interactionism is true (think philosophical swerve).
Then in a case of interaction we can think of physical events as input and other physical events as output that the input physical events do not themselves cause; they are caused by intervening mental events, singly or in chains or in complexes, that themselves originate with the input physical events.
If a particular physical brain event as input causes a particular thinking event, do thinking events ever cause such physical brain events as output?
Are thinking events correlated with physical brain events in such wise that the occurrence of either causes the other?
Are any of those that seem to be voluntary choices not caused by preceding events, physical or mental, but instead simply by the self?
Update, 12292015.
The above supposed that the physical and mental events in question are distinct from one another.
But what if all mental events are also physical events?
Like this?
Then the picture is slightly different from the more or less basic interactionism of the above.
Update, 12292015.
The above supposed that the physical and mental events in question are distinct from one another.
But what if all mental events are also physical events?
Like this?
Then the picture is slightly different from the more or less basic interactionism of the above.
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