How can a pinch of brain chemicals look like a cat?
However, the image I am experiencing and the chemical and electrical events in my brain appear quite different (a pinch of brain chemicals never looks like a cat! Nor does a sine wave!) So how can we say images and brain events are the same? (Of course, we cannot.) Although the scientist might set up a tv and watch the image, he, too, because he or she is human, is watching, not the light and the meters measuring the electricity and chemicals, but an image of these in his or her own brain! (Whether it is possible for scientists to monitor and understand thought or not, is not considered here. It is, however, almost certain that it cannot be done. If it cannot be done, however, it strengthens the belief that thoughts aren’t brain events.) Because of these and other problems, some scientists try to save materialism by denying that we really have images and that our experience of images is just, well, a mistake on our parts. When I have the image of a cat, I am mistaken! However, whether
