actually the famous physicist famously does play mystic. very incoherently too.
are you trying to advance argument by authority i.e. "famous physicist believes in classical metaphysics therefore there must be something to it"? On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:36 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/6/2011 12:22 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > >> On 06.07.2011 05:14 Constantine Pseudonymous said the following: >> >>> Bruno assumes that consciousness preceded matter.... >>> >>> then why do we only find consciousness as a terrestrial phenomena >>> (suns and stars aren't conscious).. and as a later stage terrestrial >>> phenomena for that matter.... i.e. water, plants, minerals etc. are >>> not conscious..... and intellect and understanding in any real sense >>> are found in even later stage terrestrial forms, and we have >>> physical explanations for this....... >>> >>> Bruno sins against naturalism and all that we know and intuit. >>> >>> He will do anything to resurrect from the dead some rudimentary and >>> vague Mysticism. >>> >>> >> If talk about consciousness, then I guess the next quote from Erwin >> Schrödinger should be appropriate >> >> "The doctrine of identity can claim that it is clinched by the empirical >> fact that consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the >> singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one >> consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this >> ever happening anywhere in the world." >> > > Of course we infer the consciousness of others. To experience more than > one consciousness at the same time seems to defy the meaning of > consciousness. But Schrodinger may have just had in mind that consciousness > is always associated with only a singular body - unlike the Borg in which a > single mind has many bodies. > > Brent > > > >> What would you say to this? Does the famous physicist also plays >> Mysticism? >> >> A bit more from Schrödinger >> >> http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2011/03/**the-arithmetical-paradox-the-** >> oneness-of-mind.html<http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2011/03/the-arithmetical-paradox-the-oneness-of-mind.html> >> >> Evgeny >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe@ > **googlegroups.com <everything-list%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
