(May 21, 2013 at 3:34 am)apophenia Wrote: However, many of these components or stars can combine into constellations for which we have no standard classification, or recognition that it is just stars arrayed in the night sky; religious intiutions are one such pattern: they are made of the same stuff as constellations like imagination or reasoning or pattern matching, but because we don't recognize them in that particular arrangement, we don't recognize them as being of the same "mind stuff" as these other cognitive forms.Fascinating illustration. The amount of extremely high-level yet largely unconscious background-processing that our mind does at any moment must be absolutely mind-boggling (no pun (?) intended).
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
