There's' something bothersome in all this talk (which I confess I have not followed) about brains causing or not causing feelings etc - as if one were dealing with two 'things' and it were just a matter of working out the relationship between them.

The brain is a thing - granted. But what are feelings? They are closely related to thoughts, surely. And what are thoughts? Things? In what sense? Where are they located? What colour are they? How big? What shape?

I'm sorry, but all this talk about 'functing' (ghastly word!) and feeling etc strikes me as the kind of pseudo-scientific speculation that analtyic philosophy, for all its claims to rigour, seems to me to indulge in far too often.

(Though, it is Friday and the end of the week. Perhaps I'm just feeling jaded...)

DA