On Jun 30, 9:13 am, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes ............. but not quite. > > This scientific fact does not include conscious awareness. > > Because conscious awareness remains ineffable to science. > Yet we all clearly enjoy its reality.
I think you are talking about the Mind-Body Dichotomy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-body_problem This is the BELIEF that there is something super-special, woo-woo, humans are not just animals, we are special, I have free will, there is "something" about a person that makes it different from all other things in the universe, Man was created in God's image, etc, etc. Why was Galileo imprisoned? Because he committed heresy. What was the horrible, blasphemous thingy he suggested? That the Earth is NOT the center of the universe. BLASPHEMY! When a human-thing suggests that there is NOTHING special about humans at all, that is BLASPHEMOUS! Same thing. (challenging the BELIEF that humans are NOT the center of the universe!) You say that we all CLEARLY enjoy an ineffable conscious awareness. That is CLEAR, isn't it? That is THE ENTIRE POINT OF SPIRITUALITY: To question the most fundamental assumption about yourself, and actually, totally, completely, come to a conclusion. To KNOW, most definitely not to BELIEVE. There is a belief in the mind of almost every human that has ever lived that it is self-aware, autonomous, has free will, etc, etc. There is a belief in almost every mind that a human *exists*. That is the most fundamental assumption. That IS the sense-of-self. That "I" exist. And that is what all spirituality is guiding 'you' to examine -- is this "I" that I think I am really real? Are you sure?
