From: platootje@netscape.net
Date: Tue Oct 11 2005 - 11:16:15 BST
Hello Dave,
You wrote:
I guess we're saying more or less the same things. Trying not to apply
any possibly confusing terms, I think it basically works like this: You
got "stuff" in your brain. You get(/experience) external stimuli.
Stimuli get filtered through the already existing "stuff" in your
brain. You produce some result, be it a physical reaction or new
"stuff" in your brain. Awareness/consciousness exists somewhere in this
process, when new stimuli come in and new "stuff" is created.
Do you agree so far?
Me:
Except for the conciousness being created thru that process. But this
is the tricky part. Being aware, or being consious is experienced by
means of realizing that you are, or that you think. So it's isolating a
'self' from the rest. 'I' am, or 'I' think. So it's creating a duality,
there is an 'I' so automatically the rest of the world becomes a not
'I'.
The brain provides the organic means to intellectualize about this, but
it's not the source of the awareness, or consiousness that exists
before the intellectualization creates a duality out of it.
Can you follow me?
Kind regards,
Reinier.
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