> Given what evidence? Well, one could just as well pose the same question to any dualist. The evidence for minds being physical phenomena comes, at least in

> Given what evidence? Well, one could just as well pose the same question to any dualist. The evidence for minds being physical phenomena comes, at least in part, from the observation that minds appear to be the result of physical brains, which have evolved through a physical process from much simpler precursors, doing physical things. This is far from proof, and is only a hint of an explanation of how it all actually works, but it is as least as good evidence as anything offered by dualists, who do not seem to have anything to offer in the way of a constructive explanation of minds -- they seem to spend all their time arguing against materialism, rather than for a particular idea of how minds work.