His platonism is of the sort any mathematician intuitively experiences. The unborn, uncreated, hand-maiden of wisdom.
Not the same as a pineal gland. My reading of his writings the consciousness/matter puzzle is that he is just saying that the reductictionists are skipping a few steps and that the true answer is, in fact, at this time, not known for sure. Subject to the odd error in overstating a case, perhaps. --Chris On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:00 PM, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote: > ing Penrose you may be interested to know that he is philosophically a > Platonic Dualist. He thinks there are two completely separate realms, Mind > and Matter, which somehow interact at the level of Microtubules in the brain. > He is closer to Descartes and his Pineal Gland than he is to any form of > Non-Dualism. > Steve > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
