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Re: Midbrain And Consciousness

rick_so...@hotmail.com (Rick) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:37:31 UT

Consciousness is not localized in the brain. Consciousness arises from
a set of different things.
For instance
a sense of time : you take a snapshot of the world around you, and
then take a second snapshot, compare those and project a third, and
the first is then a sense of the past, the middle one the now, and the

Re: Time and Freewill

rick_so...@hotmail.com (Rick) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:18:36 UT

I think that free will is actually not as complicated a concept as
people make it out to be.
And it is probably independent of space and time. It is based on the
uniqueness of the self.
If for instance a person said to a judge, the devil made me do it, but
on examination, that which was done, was in accordance with how that

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blanchardarn...@gmail.com (nonoLeRobot) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:01:50 UT

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Re: The Clay Ballerina

j...@vrspace.org (Josip Almasi) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:11:08 UT

Look you may be right from the point of 'classic logic' whatever that
means guess it goes back to ancient greeks:)
But in the meantime we invented predicates and class algebra and such,
to fix flaws in logic AKA boolean algebra.
Metaphysically speaking, definition of an object is sort of 'anything we

Re: The Clay Ballerina

herb...@gmail.com (herbzet) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:06:21 UT

You flatter me! -- or insult me, I'm not sure. :0
I've lived without TV for the last couple of years.

Re: The Clay Ballerina

key...@earthlinkspam.net (Keynes) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:43:49 UT

You pretend not to know, but actually you do know.
Most of the time our minds are without concepts.
That's what TV is for ain't it? (Beats meditation.)

Re: The Clay Ballerina

herb...@gmail.com (herbzet) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:39:29 UT

I give up, what?

Re: The Clay Ballerina

key...@earthlinkspam.net (Keynes) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:27:34 UT

Obviously a thing is a concept and a concept is a thing.
What if one dispenses with shaky conceptualism?

Re: The Clay Ballerina

herb...@gmail.com (herbzet) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:44:46 UT

I suppose I could have asked the question in a more ostentatiously logical
manner by asking about the converse of Berkeley's argument. :-)
I figured that, but it's nice to see your as-usual clarifying contribution
anyway!

Re: The Clay Ballerina

wolf...@sympatico.ca (Wolf Kirchmeir) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:27:09 UT

[...]
Agreed (now that i think of it....)

Re: The Clay Ballerina

wolf...@sympatico.ca (Wolf Kirchmeir) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:25:20 UT

Well, Berkeley thought so, but I don't. :-) IMO, "working backwards" on
Berkeley's argument amounts inferring an antecedent from a consequent.
I'm rereading Berkeley's essay (after about 40 years!), and haven;'t
come to the god bit yet. Found the essay when I started culling books.
Thanks for your welcome, I don't actually subscribe to sci.logic, this

Re: The Clay Ballerina

herb...@gmail.com (herbzet) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:34:39 UT

[...]
<snip discussion>
Just a "me, too"! Yes, very well-expressed materialism.

Re: The Clay Ballerina

kame...@yahoo.com (kamerm) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:32:53 UT

supposedly about 98% of the chemical constituents of our bodies are replaced
every 3-6 months while we live.
-k

Re: The Clay Ballerina

herb...@gmail.com (herbzet) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:26:50 UT

IMO this is the prior question that needs to be asked.
There is a book by Martin Heidegger entitled "What is a Thing"
(translation of the lecture "Die Frage nach dem Ding. Zu Kants
Lehre von den transzendentalen Grundsätzen.") which I read
about a third of in the library. I've been meaning to go
back and finish it sometime. It seemed a very good discussion