RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 15, 2019 at 7:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2019 at 7:35 am by bennyboy.)
So here's the question-- are experiences "simulated" by the brain under normal circumstances more representative of reality than those deep experiences which occur under religious, drug, philosophical, or meditative states?
In a special state, you might have the experience of one-ness with the Universe. This is a metaphoric truth, but one that probably accords better with a scientific understanding than our normal mode of experience-- i.e. that we are actually not distinct entities within a room called Universe, but we are regions of QM functions linked by a complex web with everything else in it in a mutual dance of interactivity. The experience makes it crystal clear-- ego is not truth. And if you think in evolutionary terms, ego is a very specific kind of illusion which has the property of sustaining itself through reproductive fitness (i.e. by magnifying the importance of one's own survival relative to someone else's), but survival and truth aren't necessarily the same thing.
In a special state, you might have the experience of one-ness with the Universe. This is a metaphoric truth, but one that probably accords better with a scientific understanding than our normal mode of experience-- i.e. that we are actually not distinct entities within a room called Universe, but we are regions of QM functions linked by a complex web with everything else in it in a mutual dance of interactivity. The experience makes it crystal clear-- ego is not truth. And if you think in evolutionary terms, ego is a very specific kind of illusion which has the property of sustaining itself through reproductive fitness (i.e. by magnifying the importance of one's own survival relative to someone else's), but survival and truth aren't necessarily the same thing.
