[SmartCitizen]

It exists on a higher order of abstraction than the neurons & molecules that it's made up of. The two worlds are totally compatible, just like water's wetness & fire-retardance are totally compatible with the fact that its components have neither.

You can't have it both ways. If there is a "higher order of abstraction" (whatever the blue blazes tht means) - another "world" which CANNNOT BE EXPLAINED BY MATERIAL FORCES or processes (such as the mind), then there necessarily is existence that is not material in nature? I put it to you simply: Are emotions and feelings and other processes of the mind, material in nature or not? Yes or no.

[From many - one.]

There are a number of posts you have not replied to.

Can I take it that you acknowledge they are correct?

[jennyp]

You can't have it both ways. If there is a "higher order of abstraction" (whatever the blue blazes tht means) - another "world" which CANNNOT BE EXPLAINED BY MATERIAL FORCES or processes (such as the mind), then there necessarily is existence that is not material in nature? I put it to you simply: Are emotions and feelings and other processes of the mind, material in nature or not? Yes or no.

Yes. There is no reason to think that there needs to be anything more than a functioning brain in order to produce a mind.