On 3/7/2025 7:09 AM, Alan Grayson wrote:
My email response to Roger Penrose's speculations about the root of
consciousness and computability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUfMZ2dts8
Dr. Penrose; What you intuit exists, and seek, is called in Tibetan
Buddhism "The Clear Light of the Void", and is described in the
"Tibetan Book of the Dead". Additional information can be found in the
Hindu scripture, "The Bhagavad Gita". I call it "The White Light" and
experienced it once in a Christian context, momentarily. I don't know
if it does computations. If you're blessed to experience it, you will
have no doubt of its role as the source of consciousness.
"Source" implies sufficiency. Yet there dozens of drugs that will
eliminate it temporarily. Making pretty clear that the "source" is in
brain chemistry.
It was discovered in the ancient world several millennia ago by Hindu
gurus and Yoga adepts. It qualifies to be called Occult or Hidden
knowledge, and is essentially unknown to modern scientists and
philosophers.
As brain chemistry was unknown to those gurus.
Brent
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