(February 8, 2016 at 4:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Although different parts of the brain, hemispheres, lobes, chemicals and electricity have been identifies as the cause of our thoughts, emotions and body functions, nothing in the brain has been identified and isolated as the agent/source of consciousness.
That may be because that's a top down approach to the workings of the brain, when you need to be looking at it from the bottom up. What if the thing we call consciousness is the brain's experience of how it feels to be a brain, as the subjective experience of all those causes combined?
(February 8, 2016 at 4:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: It could be said that what we now call dark matter was once known to the ancients as ether.
Well it could, but it actually wasn't. The ether (more correctly 'æther') hypothesis was adopted in the 19th century as a way of making the wave model of light concur with observed reality. Basically, all waves need a medium within which to propagate, be it air, water or whatever. Thus it was assumed that there must exist a medium between the planets and stars for the waves of light to propagate, which was christened æther. Experiments such as those conducted by Michelson and Morley showed that the æther not only doesn't exist, but is an unnecessary and irrelevant complication anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
