Ficino's soul-body dualism was not the same as "mind-body" dualism, nor indeed was it for Plato, for late ancient Platonists, or for medieval thinkers before Ficino (Celenza 2007, 88 89).
I had a mind that was much the same as the mind I have now, even if my mind now contains far more information.
You can't solve it by cutting the Gordian knot and saying that "of course" the brain is the same as the mind.
The transformation of the mind through the inherence of a form is not necessarily the same as the mind's possession of a concept.
Crucially, is "the mind" the same as "the brain"?
Expressing opinions should not be the same as closing your mind to the possibility of alternatives.
Vajrayana scriptures, by contrast, emphasize the training "which is not exactly the same as keeping the mind still and quiet" [ 84, page 118] but rather aims at the realization of "self-existing wakefulness" or "an awake quality" of the mind, free from dualistic thoughts, which is "like a radiant flame of a candle which exists all by itself" [ 84, page 88].
In this paper, we first define the L p -dual mixed geominimal surface area for multiple star bodies with the same idea in mind as [12].
With razor-sharp logic, Currie argues that as first women aren't as ambitious as men, and second actually prefer to stay at home and bring up babies, ergo, they shouldn't expect to be paid as much (for doing the same job, mind) as men.
Which is why I had to write this, because if there had been a different outcome, President Obama surely would be in for just as much criticism (from the same people, mind you) as he's getting now.
Learning about the moving parts of the brain is not the same as learning about the mind.
