Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?

[emjay]

Actually K, just one more thought. Since it is my view that consciousness corresponds with which neural representations are most active in the network... which could be kind of pictured as consciousness representing the tip of the iceberg, 'presenting' that which bubbles up to the top as it were in an ongoing and constant battle of competition and inhibition dynamics... ie something like survival of the fittest [representation] in the brain... then there is perhaps an idle explanation along similar lines to how I'd explain meditation; in meditation the aim is to calm the mind. So instead of the usual maelstrom of thoughts, ideas, and sensations competing for your attention in consciousness, meditation starves them of attention and thus let's them drift on or die out, leaving a calm mind and thus allowing smaller and more subtle activations to bubble through into conscious awareness. The same principle at work just by going to bed at night... if you're anything like me, as soon as you close your eyes (and thereby shut off most visual sensations) and bed down at night when it's quiet (shutting off most auditory sensations), you find then your mind just fills with ideas. So the timing gap I've been talking about could be explained by just when something breaks through into conscious awareness in these terms... in this case, awareness of an itch.