Quoting Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Which begs the question, "How does mind emerge from the mindless?" Science > is still struggling with the answer wouldn't you agree? > > [Case] > No.
"If the world consists only of patterns of mind and patterns of matter, what is the relationship between the two? If you read the hundreds of volumes of philosophy available on this matter you may conclude that nobody knows or at least knows well enough to convince everybody else. There is the materialist school that says reality is all matter, which creates mind. There is the idealist school that says it is all mind, which creates matter. There is the positivist school which says this argument could go on forever; drop the subject." (Lila, 12) I agree with Pirsig. Nobody knows well enough to convince everybody else, including many scientists. "Consciousness is widely viewed as the last frontier of science. Modern science may have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the source of conscious feelings." -- Adopted from "Introducing Consciousness" by David Papineau and Howard Selina, Icon Books http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/science/consciousness.asp ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
