Below of an exchange from another list. I have the permission of both of these people to post their material. This conversation is basically regarding the...
Scientists identify brain circuits used in sensation of touch The ability to tactually recognize fine spatial details, such as the raised dots used in braille,...
(Not surprisingly, the following note was, apparently, rejected by the moderator of JCS-online; probably because it challenges the origins of the current...
Below is a link to the forthcoming précis of a book accepted for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS). Please note that it is the...
... "...the 'classical' consciousness is, instead, a "quantum" consciousness; and that it is only through an awareness and understanding of the existence and...
... "quantum theory" is a specialist metaphor that utilises its own language to describe reality and so predict reality. In response to the success of the...
... the ... Dr. D, It can be observed that the "self" flickers into and out of existence dozens if not hundreds of times each day, depending upon the...
Chris, this is a beautiful post. I liked the way you argue, as long as you erred into 'religion' - IMO a nono if one speaks science, which is a close, but...
Michael and dr.D: the perfect way to the nuthouse. I think that I think that I think, it is a belief of a belief, the thought is there to be detected(?), but I...
... This, of course, is the 'classical' response to anyone who challenges the fundamental beliefs and assumptions of the 'classical' consciousness. It has no...
... erred into 'religion' - IMO a nono if one speaks science, What a downright incredible statement. Incredible. At first, I was going to let this pass. But...
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I'm wondering how anyone might prove that the human brain is a quantum computer. What is a micro-tubule? How would micro-anatomists recognize a qbit in a...
Can horror make you happy? Eduardo Andrade of the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business wondered why his wife loves scary movies that...
Shifty Talk: Probing the process of word evolution Bruce Bower Here's an evolutionary talking point: Two new studies quantify parts of the mechanism by which...
Hi John, thanks for the German idiom. As for the rest of this thread, I like to summarise it thus: *Things are always as we believe them to be, until we...
Michael, your post is getting into the style I wnted to disregard and avoid to begin with. To take fragments and argue 'your mind' against interpretation as...
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While we are speculating with wild abandon, why not consider what is happening with RFIDs now? We hear of RFID devices so small as to be almost microscopic....
Mark, I had a good laugh Your slip is showing, but your logic is off. I deny axioms in general, they are created because otherwise we coulod not maintain the...
The illogic of this commentary is beyond belief. Apparently because the writer not only misinterpreted what he read based on his religious biases, but also...
... Hmmmmm...... Stringing words together like this gives the false impression that such words are actually being used to convey meaning of some kind about an ...
... This, like everything else that you write (indeed, almost everything that gets posted here), is just plain retarded. Religious behavior is just that – ...
Leon, I am principally on your side - as you expressed to be on my side (sardonic is humorous for me: the 'sar' part means shit in my language. Thinak you). ...
(Referring to the post by Michael Cecil quoted below...) Here's a perfect example of how one who, in order to avoid dealing with the scientific questions asked...
... Thanks for your perceptive ad hominem generality. I'm sure everyone else who posts here will be similarly appreciative. ;-') Where do you get from what I...
... So as not to be accused of taking words and phrases "out of context", I will quote Leon's entire reply, much of which is not to the point. ... Previously,...
... You can't have it both ways, Leon. First, you assert the existence of a 'thinker'. This 'thinker', according to you, 'thinks' thoughts. In other words,...
... <snip> ... You have obviously been too selective in your reading and/or not covered materials in the archives of this list and others (e.g. mindbrain list...
... think you are an altruist, but a man of principle. As far as I can judge altruism is based on love. It is not orderly and if it is thought out at all;l it...
