[firethief]

Excellent article; expresses exactly why it drives me crazy to see people arguing over a word. Also, it seems in this case the people who study brains are saying it happens in the brain ("disease"); the people who study minds are saying it happens in the mind (emotions etc): given that humans have been aware for some time that the brain is the seat of the mind, it should be obvious that the two possibilities not only aren't exclusive, but even cannot occur independently. I guess they are so focused on their own areas of expertise they apparently forget that the other field is looking at an equally real aspect of the same phenomenon.

[firethief]

Now that I've finished reading the link I see that the determinism aspect is discussed, but for the general public. In this case the people having the disease debate are highly educated, many of them in hard-science fields; I would assume most of them would claim to espouse the non-dualistic mind/body model, yet participation in the debate requires not having fully internalised the implications of non-dualism. I think this is explained by being too entrenched in their own fields to see the whole picture. I've met a lot of people working on advanced degrees who had forgotten swathes of the basics in their own fields that weren't necessary to their specializations, let alone survey courses from undergrad. Tunnel vision is the cost of focus.