Sorry I'm just now catching up. I'm gonna try to make this a general response across the board:
I see what you mean. Maybe I should brush up on my neurology then lol. I was trying to touch on more of what Charles Sanders Pierce talks about when he discusses the "phaneron", "the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not." (wikipedia).
The idea that the world, outside of our senses, may be radically different from the way we percieve it filtered through our brains. This to me, suggests that everything we know to be true or everything we can observe with our minds, could all be a universal illusion.
Now connecting this to the idea of consciousness being seperate of the body; the reason I make these points is because if the case is that the only tools we have to understand the unvierse with are several pounds of meat we call a brain, is it better to think that we can fully understand the universe by these means, or to think that we are more than our brains?
Quote:No, it is what you call the mind that is both fooled, and in some cases knows it is being fulled. Your mind isn't a straight forward stream of rational thought. All kinds of things are going on in there at the same time.
I see what you mean. Maybe I should brush up on my neurology then lol. I was trying to touch on more of what Charles Sanders Pierce talks about when he discusses the "phaneron", "the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not." (wikipedia). The idea that the world, outside of our senses, may be radically different from the way we percieve it filtered through our brains. This to me, suggests that everything we know to be true or everything we can observe with our minds, could all be a universal illusion.
Now connecting this to the idea of consciousness being seperate of the body; the reason I make these points is because if the case is that the only tools we have to understand the unvierse with are several pounds of meat we call a brain, is it better to think that we can fully understand the universe by these means, or to think that we are more than our brains?
