RE: Consciousness: Is it seperate from the human body?
September 27, 2014 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2014 at 10:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 27, 2014 at 9:20 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: You're no fun lol. But in all seriousness, you bring up some good points. However, optical illusions aside, it still doesn't account for tactile illusions, auditory illusions, or even in extreme cases, hallucinations.What doesn't account for tactile "illusions", auditory "illusions" or hallucination. At some level everything you touch, hear or see could be described in the language of illusion. It's all abstraction.
If you're hallucinating, the brain is simply convinced that it's "seeing" something. Whether or not you believe your eyes(ears, fingers) is another issue.
Quote:But the fact that we can understand these as being illusions, despite the brain being convinced that the illusion is exactly what is happeningWhy should this suggest a disassociation between brain and mind? Does it have any choice? lol. It's stuck inside a dark, sound dampening, shock resistance case- utterly reliant upon your sensory apparatus for any information from "outside" - even the notion that there is an "outside".
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