[gonehome]

Was with you up until that last paragraph. Strokes and poking around in the brain seem to provide pretty strong evidence that it's all physical. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you were suggesting, since meta-physical doesn't really imply much.

[onnoonno]

What is a mental illness then? It's just a brain with a somehow different state configuration - and why should one care? It is just a bunch of atoms and their relations anyways..

Can you really explain in your worldview why you would care at all?

[gonehome]

I don't really think that worldview conflicts with caring.

I care because people with brain issues have a hard time in our society, why would it being physical make me not care?

With strokes and 'poking around in the brain' I just meant that there's a lot of evidence that when part of the brain is damaged it causes certain expected behaviors which would suggest that it's a physical system.

'Metaphysical' can be used by different people to mean different things since it's loosely defined as relating to things that are thought to exist which 'can't be seen'. This is why I asked for clarification, but I was mainly disagreeing with the idea that it's something supernatural or magical.

[seunosewa]

The patient's unhappy state as a result of the misconfiguration of his/her brain.

[wuliwong]

I'm not sure what you mean by "strokes and poking around in the brain"?