RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 25, 2019 at 12:04 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2019 at 12:07 am by bennyboy.)
(January 24, 2019 at 12:00 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Not seeing the distinction? It seems like you've simply cordoned off a single bit of brain..qualia,
Stop right there. Qualia is not "a single bit of brain." It's the subjective experience of what things are like.
(January 24, 2019 at 12:00 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You call all of the rest of that stuff, "not mind", well..okay..but I don't..and since we're not disputing the content of those facts I offered (that qualia is not a full representation of your field of observation, and that many things are occurring in the absence of any conscious experience of them), I wonder why you do?
I'm fine with terms like "subconscious" or "unconscious mind." However I wouldn't use the term "observation" anywhere near them.
As for things occurring absent consciousness-- do they? If time is a dimension, and mind is the experience of moving through that dimension, then there are no events at all without a subjective observer. Essentially, without subjective observation, you have a singularity.
