Whatever Consciousness is, it's Not Physical (or reducible to physical).
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When a person has a grip on his or her Imagination, Consciousness becomes the
Gate-Way unto the Universe. The two must issue forth having two names, as the One that has a dual quality. Like the Christ Man, he and she will not be fulfilled until they walk the Earth having both a Spiritual and a Physical, Empirical Body.
The person that becomes all-knowing, God Like, becomes a Know it all; whatever comes to mind becomes a Reality.
Any thought that comes to mind that can not pass the Reality test, Absolutely Bad Knowledge has a dual quality; Absolutely Bad Knowledge, mistaken to be Absolutely Good Knowledge, having a dual quality, is known to be "The Knowledge of Good and Evil, to be the downfall of Mankind, he and she.
Born of the Imagination, the Rational Mind, Knowledge that has no Empirical Value is a Rationalization, Guileful, deceptive, Evil, will cause you to speak with a
forked Tongue, to be two-faced, talk out of both sides of your mouth.
The Imagination can take you to Heaven or send you to Hell.
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There are plenty of other theories of how consciousness arises. I'm looking into them.
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Any examples?Glenn wrote: ↑July 15th, 2019, 10:35 pmI have to chime in here. Interesting discussion. I've read all the authors listed in the original post. I was bitterly disappointed by them. All their ideas are dead ends. They all obstinately reject any suggestion of immaterial aspect of mind. They blow smoke to confuse the issue. There are plenty of other theories of how consciousness arises. I'm looking into them.
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Glenn, you certainly have not read Tamminen. I think he has posted in this thread. I do not agree with him on many issues but he has established the transcendental existence of consciousness as a primary ontological truth that expands Descartes' "I think therefore I am" into "I think of myself as an object therefore I am". With that sweeping insight he establishes the fact that consciousness does not arise from matter but matter does not even exist without it being observed by consciousness.Consul wrote: ↑July 16th, 2019, 8:57 pmAny examples?Glenn wrote: ↑July 15th, 2019, 10:35 pmI have to chime in here. Interesting discussion. I've read all the authors listed in the original post. I was bitterly disappointed by them. All their ideas are dead ends. They all obstinately reject any suggestion of immaterial aspect of mind. They blow smoke to confuse the issue. There are plenty of other theories of how consciousness arises. I'm looking into them.
The conclusion is that consciousness does not evolve from matter but is present from the beginning.
I agree with that assertion and therefore we need not look for "theories of how consciousness arises". Our task is to look for the ways in which consciousness imbeds itself into our physical reality. The creation of a cell is the work of "consciousness" and serves to be a bottom line home for a consciousness that wants to have some casual efficacy over our physical reality.
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Rupert Sheldrake and morphic fieldsConsul wrote: ↑July 16th, 2019, 8:57 pmAny examples?Glenn wrote: ↑July 15th, 2019, 10:35 pmI have to chime in here. Interesting discussion. I've read all the authors listed in the original post. I was bitterly disappointed by them. All their ideas are dead ends. They all obstinately reject any suggestion of immaterial aspect of mind. They blow smoke to confuse the issue. There are plenty of other theories of how consciousness arises. I'm looking into them.
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Oh, yuck!
You should be, because Sheldrake is a pseudoscientific snake-oil salesman.
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…in which case conscious (experiencing, sensing, feeling) beings must have been present from the beginning. How credible is that in the light of our scientific knowledge of the world (especially when those conscious beings are nonliving beings)?!
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