<< That is, if one is being scientistic (i.e., very roughly, only
scientifically justified beliefs are rational), one presumably would both
treat (1) mind as purely an aspect of brain (perhaps, as is trendy now, just
a folk-psychology name for what the brain does), and (2) brain as a physical
object completely causally and ontologically reducible to its material
constituents. >>
Indeed. And the thoughts "I should help feed my hungry neighbor"
and "I should have a Big Mac" would ultimately be classfied in the
same category.
Mike