Re: MD What is SOM?

From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 04:59:35 BST


Erin,

enoonan wrote:

> Hi Squonk,
>
> I have serious doubts whether a person can experience the NOW, I think
> it would be too overwhelming.

You might be interested in the following, from Georg Kuhlewind's "Stages
of Consciousness", p. 25:

"...consciousness only "experiences" the already-thought, whereas the
*process* of thinking lies *before* what has been thought. Therefore
this process -- the coming into being of thought -- is preconscious.
Without finished thoughts and finished representations, there is no
consciousness in the usual sense of the word."

That is, experience is always experience of the past, for normal
consciousness.

- Scott

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