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Originally Posted by peter12
Come on, are you serious? This begins with a pretty obvious ideological postulate; the mind can be best understand as a mechanical and chemical organ. That's materialist ideology right there. What is really happening is the alternatives to biomedical views of the brain, such as theology or psychoanalysis, are being subsumed into the materialist world-view without any perspective on the purpose of the alternative or what it means for a general understanding of humanity.
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That in itself is a fairly presumptuous statement, and one that you make with some frequency. At what point do we concede that one has failed to correctly understand "alternatives" instead of legitimately rejecting them? I expect that you will likely disagree with this, but one of the reasons for the rapid expansion of the "modern world" has not so much to do with some preconceived materialistic agenda, and much more to do with the functionality of scientific and rational thinking. Quite simply, it is embraced because it works.
I don't wish to deny that our world is riddled with problems, but neither do I find it helpful to vilify the post-Enlightenment worldview through an excessively romanticized notion of the past. There were problems then as there are now: different sorts of problems; different challenges.