A second limitation of materialism is that nobody has a convincing idea of how the human mind could be a by-product of the biological processes in the brain.
Attempts to simulate the human mind as a by-product of biological or mechanical processes were not successful (cybernetics), whereas computers of a completely different structure (running sequences of instructions on stored information) started to thrive.
For example, if a syllogism contains only negative premises (Suh as no As are Bs), people are more likely to reject it
not true. if statements follow the same quantifiers in all premises, let that be positive or negative (e.g., some As are Bs; some Bs are Cs therefore some As are Cs OR no As are Bs; no Bs are Cs therefore no As are Cs) people are more likely to accept them because they seem consistent. meanwhile a Venn diagram can reveal that neither is actually true.
n which a participant reverses terms that should not be reversed.
some and no can be reversed, while all and some not cannot.