What does root even mean ? On Saturday, 8 March 2025 at 03:38:54 UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote:
> > > On 3/7/2025 4:45 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, March 7, 2025 at 3:49:36 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > 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. > > > ??? AG > > A source of water provides water without anything else being required. A > source of money provides money. A source of consciousness must provide > consciousness. > > > > Yet there dozens of drugs that will eliminate it temporarily. Making > pretty clear that the "source" is in brain chemistry. > > > And you know that how? AG > > Have you not heard of anesthetics? > > 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. > > > And the White Light is unknown to you. AG > > When you see a white light, be careful. It might be an oncoming train. > > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a7e5b6af-b0a0-4e63-acf4-740f79465d5an%40googlegroups.com.
