(March 11, 2016 at 10:14 am)IATIA Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 9:37 am)Little Rik Wrote: You know absolutely nothing about philosophy about the difference between brain, mind and consciousness,
Science has lots of answers and more information is coming all the time. The only issue that science has not yet been able to address is the 'qualia' of existence, of which you cannot know anything anymore than anyone else. All living things are aware. This is simply a function of life that is necessary for continuance. A virus needs to be aware of the DNA factory of a cell to reproduce and that awareness is nothing more than chemical reactions.
There got to be a motivation in order to start an action and this motivation is all about an expansion of consciousness.
Nobody waste energy for nothing.
Everything and everybody is on the move in order to gain something.
Chemical reactions are just consequences of motivations.
Quote:There is no reason to believe that we are any different. Qualia on the other hand, is an awareness of our awareness. A virus, however, has no brain, ergo it has no qualia.
A virus does not have a brain so what?
Motivations to expand do not necessary need a brain.
It is the desire to expand our consciousness that drive life in the universe.
And is not the brain that dictated so.
You are not the brain.
You use the brain as a driver would use the car but you are not the car.
Quote:The problem with qualia is that we cannot study it within the 'system' and we are unable to step out of the system. It is impossible to completely know any system from within the system. Qualia puts us in a position that leads us to believe that we are aware of reality when in fact, we are nothing more than 'brains-in-a-vat' and cannot know for sure that anything we perceive is as we perceive it.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
You are so stuck inside the corral of physicality that nothing else exist.
Humans have something more that physicality.
They have the possibility to expand their consciousness to such a degree that everything is possible
but here i don't go any further otherwise we get out of topic.
Quote:What qualia is, how the brain generates qualia, why the brain does so, if the brain does so are all good questions for which we have no answer at this time. Whether or not we can ever know is an even bigger question.
So, unless you can source some information that no one else in the world has, how can you even begin to suggest that you know anything of this system? Anecdotes and 'scripture thumping' are not proof, evidence or even 'keyholes' to reality and the nature of qualia.
The brain is none but a vehicle that we need to exist in this physical universe but is not us so by giving
so much importance to the vehicle and not to the real I you will never understand how the whole system works.
Quote:So bring it on.
Energy and consciousness are the two sides of the same coin.
This is the relationship.
One can not exist without the other.
Evolution start from matter.
After millions of years the consciousness sort of awake from the latent stage.
That is why some matter release energy like uranium.
The energy was always there but it stay in that latent stage until the consciousness awake.
This is something that Darwin never considered.
Yoga on the other hand knew this all the time.
