--- ozarkheretic <ozarkheretic@...> wrote:

> Does this idea mean that if a person thinks "bad thoughts", his brain
> is changed? Does this notion support the idea of "mental illness"?

The only way to change a book containing good ideas into one containing bad
ideas is to physically change the pattern of ink on its pages so that it
contains different words. However, a bad book is not a set of typographical
errors.

Likewise, it may be the case that a person with bad thoughts has a
different pattern of links between neurons or that the neurons fire
differently or whatever. But this is not the same as that person having a
brain illness, anymore than Mein Kampf was just an unfortunate accident
with a printing press.

Alan





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