--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:08 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" > > > > <richardhughes103@> wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <groups@> > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> > > > >>> More cogently, we have to ask whether the research approach is > > > >>> really appropriate to the subject. Are brainwave measurements, > > > >>> no matter how sophisticated, really indicative of the > > > >>> operation or qualities of consciousness? > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> Of course they are, consciousness is a quality of the brain > > > >> therefore measuring the brainwaves gives us at least an idea of > > > >> what's going on. > > > >> > > > > > > > > Whenever I hear something like this, I find myself > > > > wondering whether everyone who says it has completely > > > > forgotten the Bardo experience, between death and > > > > rebirth. Consciousness doesn't stop. It's there while > > > > the body is lying dead in its coffin and the brain is > > > > no longer functioning, and its there long after the > > > > body has been reduced to ashes in the crematorium. > > > > So what part of that consciousness do you believe > > > > is based on your physical brain? > > > > > > Precisely. The brain is merely the hardware of consciousness. > > > Fortunately for us, consciousness can exist separately from > > > that hardware. > > > > Oh yeah? prove it! > > As it turns out, there is a fairly simple way of > proving this. And, as it turns out, you yourself > will be one of the test subjects in the experiment, > whether you want to be or not. > > Just pay attention to what happens at the moment > of your death, and then *keep* paying attention. > > Reporting your research to others and getting it > published may be a little more difficult, however. :-) >
I'll do just that, hopefully I won't be reporting today though. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
