RE: A Scientific Basis for Spirit
February 11, 2012 at 6:54 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2012 at 6:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If you've redefined spirit as consciousness then no experiment or further evidence is required, consciousness exists.
You've misrepresented current understanding of the matter. Those high level thoughts aren't experiencing consciousness, they are consciousness. The rest of your comments on this matter are based upon this misrepresentation, so your criticism of the current understanding is baseless. In short, straw man due to a fuzzy understanding of the subject.
Your "experiment" simply assumes that your brain is experiencing something eternal. You're asking us to think without thinking. To focus without exerting the mental effort required to focus. To pay attention without paying attention etc etc. I have to ask, if we have to use our biological machines to conduct this experiment how can we be sure that what we are experiencing is external to those machines in the first place? Where are our blinds, double blinds? What are the parameters, what are we attempting to achieve, what results should we expect?
What you've described as a given, no, "clearly a given" is no such thing, at least not based upon this "experiment"...which isn't an experiment at all....
You've misrepresented current understanding of the matter. Those high level thoughts aren't experiencing consciousness, they are consciousness. The rest of your comments on this matter are based upon this misrepresentation, so your criticism of the current understanding is baseless. In short, straw man due to a fuzzy understanding of the subject.
Your "experiment" simply assumes that your brain is experiencing something eternal. You're asking us to think without thinking. To focus without exerting the mental effort required to focus. To pay attention without paying attention etc etc. I have to ask, if we have to use our biological machines to conduct this experiment how can we be sure that what we are experiencing is external to those machines in the first place? Where are our blinds, double blinds? What are the parameters, what are we attempting to achieve, what results should we expect?
What you've described as a given, no, "clearly a given" is no such thing, at least not based upon this "experiment"...which isn't an experiment at all....
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