This discussion is rapidly becoming senseless. What are your definitions of metaphysically and moot?
Metaphysically joined at the hip with physical things!
This discussion is rapidly becoming senseless. What are your definitions of metaphysically and moot?
By "metaphysically" I mean pertaining to a thing's essential nature. It's the nature of at least some non-physical entities (we're discussing "mind" and related entities) to be inextricably and fundamentally - "metaphysically" - related to the physical objects that generate them (i.e. the brain). It's a moot point, IOW useless, to try to claim that they're inherently separate entities, even though it makes more sense to analyze the nonphysical mind in very different terms than the physical brain.
If you think that's senseless, then I don't know what to say, except "g'nite".