Hello Everyone:
It always warms my heart when a scientist who has probably never
heard of the MOQ unknowingly supports key parts of it. Recent
examples are a couple of excerpts from a forthcoming book by a
clinical neuropsychologist Paul Broks entitled, "Into the Silent Land."
See if they don't ring a bell with you:
"If your sensory systems inform you that there is a crazed-looking man
fast approaching with an axe, your body will enlist the affect program
identified with fear. Before you have time even to experience your terror,
before the eye-bulging, voltage surge of awareness, various
physiological systems will have reconfigured themselves in
preparation for a response. You will turn and run. The thought, 'I am
terrified' will follow hot on your heels, though, most likely, will have
entered the past tense by the time it catches up. I was terrified, you will
later recall."
"If there is a way to untie the 'knot of knots' problem of consciousness,
perhaps the first move is to acknowledge that we are not only
physically embodied but also embedded in the world around us. The
mind may be local to the body and the brain but is also, in different
ways, distributed beyond biological boundaries. The notion of the
'extended mind' has been gaining currency in cognitive science."
Ah, yes. Science will eventually catch up to Pirsig.
Platt
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