RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 1, 2019 at 8:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 1, 2019 at 8:07 pm by Belacqua.)
(January 1, 2019 at 8:02 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: And yet I still think I just offered a probable explanation. Go figure.
I would also suggest that consciousness is really just awareness filtered through a self-concept. It is not a being at all, but a process of the body's brain. So there is no actual subject aside from the body, as I said before. That means the electrochemical events are necessarily experiences of brains in bodies, and are merely interpreted for content.
"...that is a given."
In Chomsky's speech, that I linked to earlier, he gives examples of this kind of response. In many cases today, science doesn't tell us how something happens. Science can only tell us "it just happens."
This is the case with experience. Nothing you offer here advances us beyond that.