Hi Bruno Marchal
Self can include personality, history, ID, whatever,
but it has as its central, essential feature a point of focus
which is a unity: a substance, to use Leibniz's
vocabulary.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/12/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent
Hi Bruno Marchal
Thanks.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/12/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function.
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Time: 2012-09-11, 13:25:05
On 12 Sep 2012, at 12:03, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
Self can include personality, history, ID, whatever,
but it has as its central, essential feature a point of focus
which is a unity: a substance, to use Leibniz's
vocabulary.
Which is not the substance is the materialist sense.
Hi Bruno Marchal
If the self or the perceiver is a substance in the Leibniz sense,
then it is also a monad. Monads (such as me) do not perceive
directly, but must wait (although actually it's instant) until the Supreme
Monad does the observation for it and reports back.
As I understand it,
Hi Albert,
They commonly use IMRI (which detects which parts of the brain are operating
at the moment) to find which parts of the brakin function at certain times.
They find that introspective reflection turns on an areas in
the prefrontal cortex:
Nah, the function of the amygdala only contributes one range of sense and
motive to the self.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2010/12/16/brain-anomaly-leaves-woman-without-fear
This woman has no amygdala, but besides not being able to experience or
On 11 Sep 2012, at 13:05, Roger Clough wrote:
The self (the amygdala) and the triune brain
Since neuroscience omits or seems not to feature the most important
part of the brain, the self,
I've decided to try to locate it. I believe it is the amygdala.
On 11 Sep 2012, at 13:33, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
The idea of looking for a spatio-temporal location of the mental (or
soul) categories in the brain is wrong IHMO, and it is surprising to
heart this from you Roger. Brain localization of mental functions is
like trying to locate
On 9/11/2012 1:25 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 11 Sep 2012, at 13:33, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
The idea of looking for a spatio-temporal location of the mental (or
soul) categories in the brain is wrong IHMO, and it is surprising to
heart this from you Roger. Brain localization of mental
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