----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Is consciousness real?
> James Higgo writes: > > Consciousness - a flow of related thoughts in time - does not exist, any > > more than time itself exists. All that exists of 'you' is this very present > > thought. > > > > This simple view solves all known paradoxes of consciousness, fits with what > > we know of the world, and is, incidentally, in concord with Buddhist > > philosophy. You can even be happy if you believe it; believing it forces you > > to live in the present. > > This solves all the problems, does it? What about the question of > whether something, say an animal or a fetus, is conscious or not? > Should I treat conscious and unconscious entities the same? > > And if consciousness doesn't exist, does that mean suffering doesn't > exist either? Should we not care about slavery, torture and other > institutions that cause human suffering? > > I think you have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. > > Hal Hal, Go back and re-read -EXACTLY- what James is saying. >All that exists of 'you' is this very present thought. Re-read it, look at it, contemplate it, meditate on it, think upon it, dwell on it .......then tell me if this statement is true or false. Take care.... Martin. BTW ---IF you see the validity of this statement, you will move into an entirely different "universe" then you will ever have experienced in your life.
