MENTAL SURVIVAL
Sir,-Your correspondent E. Satchell, Auckland, believes in "The probability that the mind ... . does indeed survive death." Such a belief can only be
based on metaphysics and is such -doctrines of supernaturalists that are presented as dogmas (to which he subscribes) and not those which abide .by the laws of nature. The mind is an abstract term embracing phenomena which we call mental, but we do not have mental facts in addition to the mind, but mental facts only. "Supernaturalists take their metaphysical abstraction (the | mind), assurne it to be an independent agency in man, and then proceed to build up their theories ‘on something that cannot ‘come within their perception. Science, on the other hand, observes facts and then formulates a theory in line with the facts observed. If the. mind was independent of the body it could not be) affected by such things as injutfyy sunstroke, chloroform, intoxicating liquor, etc. Without the brain there can be no mind and both, are dependent ‘on the body. "Behaviour- | ism," to which he refers, is one of many "psychologies," but without mind, soul, or consciousness, and therefore cannot be psychology-and a psychology with an immaterial mind cannot be a science.
ARGOSY
(Te Awamutu)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 23
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203MENTAL SURVIVAL New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 482, 17 September 1948, Page 23
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