Humans are animals - embrained thinking animals which are comprised of meat like any other primate. Humans have a meaty brain but there are no brain states, no qualia, no mind, consciousness, properties, ontological differences or existential modalities.  Such useful fictions are modern leftovers from primitive folk psychology. What exists are active thinking functional creatures with thinking brain-meat. If you happen to meet a qualia-freak - ask him or her to prove qualia exists and then stand back and  watch them begin to flannel evasively and obfuscate.

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Humans have had to create some form of words to describe their constantly changing meat. We have invented words to describe all kinds of (what we call) actions and movements both neurological and somatic. We have done this  in order that we can create and communicate statements that represent information regarding aspects of our bodybrain and the bodybrains of others. Such a descriptive lexicon does not exist in itself  - that is it cannot be found in the world outside of human bodybrains - we exist as living lexicons, the printed words in books and libraries contain meaningless symbols which only become meaningful when they are scanned by embrained humans. The words we invent for any form of description do not suddenly burst into existence just because we vibrate our voice-box as we force air over it to make sounds. If toe-meat is damaged when a brick falls on it - it starts to exist as a painful toe. Just because we invented a word pain does not mean that pain exists in the world or in the  toe - it just means that because of tissue damage the toe exists in a painful manner rather than the manner in which it existed before the brick fell on it.
The way that the human exists at that moment is conditioned by the painful flesh of his or her toe. The representation of the entity-threatening condition of the painful toe is mapped to the central nervous system because there is nowhere else to map it to in the foot.

Functionally it is in too much of an exposed position right down there near to the ground for the foot to have its own 'colonial or ancillary' brain. The toe contains its own reactive 'feeder cells' or 'nociceptors' which send the information regarding any physical trauma to the specialized areas for awareness and cogitation situated up in the head, 'out of harm's way' of the entity's locomotory action with its attendant exposure to the hazards of locomotion down below.

The condition of the damaged toe, [meaning the way the toe exists at that moment in time] as represented to the neural network as 'pain' is a protective physiologically centralised alarm system. If no such alarm system had developed (as when the signals are 'bracketed out' in the case of a modern anaesthetically accompanied surgical amputation of the toe) – then the neural network would be unaware that the relevant chunk of painful flesh had been crushed until the effects of the drug wears off or the patient is able to look down at his foot and see that the toe is no longer attached to his body.

In a surgical removal of the toe the 'pain' of the diseased toe is then replaced by the 'pain' of the cut tissue from where the incision and cut were made to sever the toe – but once again it is the insulted cut tissue and the rest of the body [including the neural network] that exists and not the 'pain.' If our bodies start to exist in a manner that we call running, that does not mean that running exists - it is simply a way we have of describing (to others) a running body. We do not need to use our language TO OURSELVES  if we are running or if we see someone else running We simply register the object in the way that it exists at the moment we witness it - we do not need to convert what we see into words for our own benefit, and we only do that if we decide to tell somebody what we saw.

Following my understanding of eliminativism – which really means the way I look at things – for I only take the ideas of others as guides rather than gospel – I reject the suggestion that there actually exist physiological 'feelings' pertaining to, or involving pleasurable or painful sensations.   I therefore consider it apodictically  obvious  that  the claim that the  'pain' when we stub our toe - or the 'pleasure'when we experience orgasm, or  any other so-called  'somatic feelings' or 'qualia' we undergo are bio-chemically definable and measurable 'objects' is a fiction. 

    For my version of eliminative determinism  what is really being measured is the electro-chemical sensual signals whose modulation and intensity represent courier-coded information about the traumatic or pleasurable  condition of the originative object-flesh or meaty  tissue from which it comes as heralded messages via the nerves as mediated by the neuronal networks of  the central nervous system.

The embodied brain or embrained body (take your pick)  needs  to know of the painful toe-meat so that automatic damage limitation adjustments can be made (survival-wise) by the human holism. The painful toe's pain is NOT transported to the brainmeat - you do not get to know about the painful toe-meat in your head -  you do not feel the pain in your aware brain, the complete  holism senses it and is aware of it because the whole system has been breached and the body carries out its own systems-survey. That is NOT to say, eliminativistically speaking  that a  system exists - what exists is a systemised holism.

In ontological discussion if someone uses words like qualia, mind, consciousness, brain-states, properties, essences, existential modalities and other such transcendentalist occult terms WITHOUT CONFIRMING THAT THEY ARE EMPLOYING THEM MERELY AS USEFUL FICTIONS, then that is enough for that person to be considered a transcendentalist. Such a person is espousing (either ignorantly of deliberately) a noxious infantile dualism which is only different in the manner and DEGREE of harm it causes from the idiots who steered the aircraft into the side of Twin Towers.


In the present era of weapons of mass destruction - each hypostasising financier, each small town abstractionist, each academic reificationist  is either an  ingenuous perpetuator of an insidious reality-unconnectedness upon which most of the troubles of mankind are based, or, if a deliberate disseminator of ontological dualism, a culpable constituent  in the savage, uncomprehending behemoth of a primitive mordacious transcendentalism that threaten western civilisation.