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The thing imagined doesn't exist in the material though until the material is manipulated.
Quite; there seems to be a strong anthropocentric tendency to treat what goes on in the brain as uniquely separate from the rest of the physical world - non-physical even.But it nonetheless has physical underpinnings in the physical brain.
Without your physical brain, you don't have the required physical underpinnings that enables you to imagine anything.
Where do you come up with this stuff??
It's all in that dreaded Bible that you guys refuse to read.
I think the reality of it is...he is right, it's outside the material universe, but it is within the bigger picture.
Reading the Bible lately has become like watching the news, it's the same. Even Scientific American Magazine ran an article (june 1995?) that said there are up to 11 other dimensions existing parallel to our own. That, our dimension is but a shadow of a larger reality.
That's your guys talking, not anyone religious. Scientific American. I found it, you google it. It's there.
No, that's quite wrong. Whole fields of science are involved in studying the mind and consciousness - and constantly making new discoveries about them.
It seemed clear that, when considering the circumstances of a choice, they only included external circumstances, not internal circumstances, i.e. their own state of mind.
Well then you should know that they cover that material in there...???
Consciousness is characterised by widescale activity across the whole brain (although not the whole brain is active).Ok, so why can't they find the location of our consciousness in our brain? They do not now where consciousness is.
Not really, no. The heart has local nerve ganglia that help synchronise its beating and can respond to hormonal stimuli (e.g. adrenaline), and it also has a connection to the brain via the vagus nerve, that provides more specific control and feedback; it's quite a complex control system, but it only 'thinks' in the sense that a computer control system (e.g. a car's ECU) thinks.Ok, big mystery of God revealed here, ok? They can't find consciousness in the brain because it isn't in the brain. It is in your heart. The heart thinks.
Do you have a particular point about my observation, besides admitting ignorance and suggesting I could be wrong, without saying how?I don't know about the specific wotnot of the specific reference there (if that's true or not), but (if so) then what you say here...is a good point and makes sense.
However, if you're not careful enough to consider that, hey you might be wrong, (much in the same manner, happens to everybody here and there! Lol) then all you're doing is talking to hear yourself talk.
Perhaps; but life is biological function.There's a lot more to life than biological function.
Consciousness is characterised by widescale activity across the whole brain (although not the whole brain is active).
If you want something far more complex and sophisticated than the heart's innervation, check out the neural ganglia that manage the gut - they've been called our 'second brain' - although, sophisticated as it is, it too is basically just a dedicated control system for the gut.
I didn't even know that. That's pretty cool. But that would loosen the validity of evolution? All of these highly specialized systems within us...and all happened because a land animal crapped in the lake and a fish ate it. Two billion years later here we are? Man, I couldn't ever buy that one. We are too specialized in our systems for evolution and chemical processes to be solely responsible for who we are. Science says, if an improvement is the goal then new information has to be there. You don't get something from nothing. Where did the new information come from? From intelligent design!
Me neither - I don't know where you got that from - do you have a reference?I didn't even know that. That's pretty cool. But that would loosen the validity of evolution? All of these highly specialized systems within us...and all happened because a land animal crapped in the lake and a fish ate it. Two billion years later here we are? Man, I couldn't ever buy that one.
Evolution doesn't have a goal. Populations have inheritable traits that vary from individual to individual (e.g. intelligence). If some variations of these traits (e.g. greater than average intelligence) enable individuals to be more successful and have significantly more offspring, then the population average for that trait (e.g. intelligence) will move in that direction over the generations as those individuals contribute a greater than average proportion of offspring who themselves are likely to have more offspring than average. Contrariwise, traits that are a disadvantage to reproductive success will tend to die out as they will result in fewer offspring in future generations.We are too specialized in our systems for evolution and chemical processes to be solely responsible for who we are. Science says, if an improvement is the goal then new information has to be there.
Evolution doesn't 'get something from nothing', it changes what was already there, and if that change is an improvement, i.e. it results in more offspring, it is likely to persist and spread over the generations.You don't get something from nothing. Where did the new information come from? From intelligent design!
You're right about processing and consolidating information at night - significant short and medium-term memories are encoded into long-term memory, and so-on - many of the areas involved have been identified; but as for the rest of that post - the evidence from neuroscience says it's nonsense. Sorry.Is that what they're saying now?! The used to admit it, I've read the articles in scientific journals. Huh. That must be the new code talk to try to get people to believe it.
The brain plays a role, but it is not where consciousness arises from. It might act as some sort of external hard drive storage thing or something. I don't know exactly, but what I do know is the Christian perspective also. Which is, anyone can have...a bad or dark thought pop into their head, and it's not necessarily sin at that point. It's what you do with it that decides. (Take every thought captive to Christ) Which means don't dwell on it, cast the thought down, out of your mind.
If you continue to entertain the thought and think about it, it goes...whoosh, down into your heart and becomes sin to you, and becomes part of who you are.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
The entire brain does work too man. They just don't know what it does or how to test it. Just like, a few years back, they was sayin most of DNA was junk DNA...they know better now!!
Personally, I suspect that the other (supposed non working) part of the brain that we don't use...turns on at night when we sleep and does something. That's why they say, let me sleep on it. The info data that you input that day...is processed at night and then becomes wisdom. ?? I think, lol.
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