On 4 Mrz., 12:02, Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I tell you this because it is the working of the brain, people put
> conclusions to infinity. It is my point of view that we should not
> seek in the brain but in the thinking that it produces to infinity.
>
> Matthijs
>
That's a very interesting comment, Matthijs, if I've understood you
properly.
We tend sometimes, in such discussions, to confuse the levels on which
we are discoursing. In one sense, I don't think the ontological
discussion of epistemology is really so important - does consciousness
exist "beyond" the brain, or is it some kind of virtual software
running on a neuronic hardware/OS? We experience our consciousness
individually, and can experience together, for want of a better
expression, spiritual intersubjectivity. This experience, the
possibilities offered by (self-)consciousness (whatever it is, or
isn't) lead us into magnificent, open depths. Seen from this
viewpoint, we can - to take up the theme of another thread - live
forever right now, in the moment. Or, as William Blake so beautifully
put it:
"To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour."
Francis
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