I'm not addressing Dennett. I am talking about experiments that can change consciousness. If a chemical can change consciousness then obviously chemicals are a great part of consciousness. Likewise for the application of electro-magnetic forces.
Consciousness is essentially a closed loop. 80% of all conscious activity arises from within the brain, only 20% is from external sensory input. Neuro-transmitters are essentially, also simply chemical transfers launch by electrical energy. For example, LSD exclusively affects the temporal lobe. If you remove the temporal lobe the subject can consume buckets of LSD and it will have no effect on him/her at all.. Absolutely all psychotropic drugs alter consciousness via physical chemical influences, from god experiences to colour perception. Serotonin, as an example, is manipulated by large numbers of hallucinogenics as well as ant-depressants. I see no reason at all to assume that anything gives rise to consciousness beyond electricity and chemistry. This is not as big a mystery as the posts here seem to think. I would strongly recommend some, even cursory, study of current research in neuro-science and behavioural/cognitive experiments being done by Persinger and others. The brain is being mapped and it won't be very many more decades before all the 'mystery' removed. >No doubt we will eventually understand the specific correlations and >what produces our own experience of Being and being conscious meaning >what the specific arrangements are and how they are tied to detailed >phenomenological descriptions of experience. We already know the general area of the right side of the brain where our feelings of 'self' reside. In fact, if we stimulate that same area we create a feeling in the subject of 'another' self. A duality that is usually ultimately described by the subject as god-like. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" 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/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
