Surely I will meet you in the afterbook Pat - not because I am a saint, but because I am to crass to be embarrassed! I went out for a couple of pints last night to discover Bolton closed. This was my first venture for a couple of months and I'm afraid this sad town is in real trouble. The boozers don't really matter, but the heart of any opportunity for meeting in such a traditional way might. In pub one, one old mate now retired was waxing lyrical on the dismal owner being hated by 75% of potential custom and a bent clique running the social club and in number two I discovered three and four had gone 'bank' from two stray Irishmen. Industry is long gone here, along with much that made us something of a collective. Have I told you what a fine, pre-published fellow you are of late?
On 5 Oct, 17:37, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 Oct, 16:24, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > archytas > > > I can't pretend to be more learned than Rodger Penrose, but I can't > > see why conciousness can't be a very likely byproduct of evolution. > > Obviously our species was well rewarded for devolping the trait. It > > seems that a favorite survival development for species is > > specialization, which only gets you comfortable niche, until your > > environment changes. > > > Conciousness seems to be the answer to this, it gives us a theater to > > act appropriately in situations that have not happened to us as > > individuals, or even as a species. It's an amazing advange that gives > > us more longevity than being hardwired to respond to a specific > > evironment in a more effcient way. > > Without it, we wouldn't 'know', much less, know how to act. It's > the only way to get 'thoughts/ideas' associated 'us' as individuals, > which is why I find it analogous to the 'bus' of a CPU: that which > fetches data between the data space (the mind of God as a pool of > abstracts) and memory (this hard-core 4-D universe). > > > It sounds like you feel that conciousness is wasted on many > > individuals, or more succinctly, most people waste their > > conciousness. I can't disagree with that. The human species has a > > very interesting balance between contributing as an individual, and > > going along with the herd. Ever since I read 'Germs, Guns, and > > Steel', I can't stop thinking of the collective minds of the human > > race as several different colonies of bacteria giong through their own > > evolutionary process. > > *sings*... Every thought is sacred. Every thought is Good.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
