> Bear in mind that science has used very little imagination here to date. > Science only started studying consciousness ten years ago. It still hasn't > started studying "Thought" - the actual contents of consciousness: the > streams of thought inside people's heads. In both cases, the reason has been > sheer prejudice and nothing to do with true science.
That is absurd -- the reason is that brain-scanning doesn't work very well; and designing informative rigorous psych lab experiments to measure aspects of cognition is really hard > I'm confident that well within the next 10 years, science will a) recognize > Thought as a vital area of study (with the same mushrooming of study that > took place with Consciousness, if not larger) and will b) understand why > Thought is so important - above all, to improve human thinking. What do you think the mushrooming of Cognitive Science during the last decade has been? Science does recognize thought as a critical area of study. It's just a difficult thing to study. All right, I'm going to stop taking the bait of your absurd claims and statements, Mike (for a while at least) ... it's tempting to fall into the trap of correcting silly statements that pour into my Inbox, but it's burning too much of my time, even though I read and type quite fast... -- Ben G ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=76106993-9e1bad
