Dan, I am curious here, what is there in what I said that strikes you as an "outburst" or "annoyance" or even "unduly troubled"? I was making a few simple observations about Ham's post and thought to include your comments as well. Frankly I am gun shy of commenting on anything you say because you always get all hurt and miffed about it.
My reference to cosmic force fields was only because for the brain to be an antenna it would have to be receiving something from somewhere. Since consciousness seems undetectable among the known forces and energies of nature I just threw that out there. As for Bok's comment in his review it struck me in the context it was delivered as a causal personal observation on his part to which you reacted with outrage and annoyance. Perhaps this is why Socrates though writing things down was a bad idea. Case -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everyone >From: "Case" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [MD] Art of Value >Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:22:46 -0400 > > > > [Dan]: > > Yes it is. I believe the question was: does consciousness survive the > > death of the brain. To the best of my knowledge, no one has yet >identified > > what consciousness is or where (or if) it is located in the brain. Does > > the brain act as a kind of antenna for consciousness? No one knows. If >the > > > brain is indeed the seat of consciousness then when the brain dies, so > > does consciousness. But if the brain acts as an antenna, then perhaps > > consciousness survives in some fashion that we as living beings are >unable > > to comprehend. It is I suppose a mystery that only the dead share. > >[Case] >Brain as antenna? I think Scott Roberts used to go on about this. The brain >clearly does act in some respects like an antenna. We absorb light and >sound >and texture and chemicals and transmute these into conscious states. But >why >would you even suggest that we are antenna picking ups some undetectable >force field from the cosmos? > >The notion of disembodied consciousness is so alien to any kind of human >experience I can only wonder what would the point be? Why would this be at >all relevant to us? Hi Case Thank you for writing. To tell the truth, I don't remember Scott going on about this. I was responding to the certainty contained in Bok's review of Humphrey's book. I am not a brain expert nor am I an antenna expert but I have heard speculation along the lines that consciousness doesn't reside in the brain. I've re-read what I wrote and I don't see anything about force fields from the cosmos. In light of your outbursts of annoyance I don't see any point in pursuing this matter further. You do seem unduly troubled by my speculations, if you don't mind my saying so. I hope everything is going well for you. Thank you for reading, Dan moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
