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Originally Posted by austintorn@aol.com  I've been receiving the 'Journal of Consciousness Studies' for about ten years now, and Mikal is correct that there is no workable answer yet, just many theories, of which Bentov's is one. No one has even come close to solving Chalmer's well posed 'hard problem'. Consciousness could merely be the brain's perception of itself or much more. No one knows yet. It would then be a mistake, then, to assume any one theory and let it rule your life. Bentov left us prematurely over 25 years ago, but there is still no proof yet of his theory that we are thought receivers. As for his holographic theory, my first post on ToeQuest proposed that the 3rd dimension could be a projection; however, this would mean that all is still real in 2-D and that it would represent nature's efficient workings, nothing more. http://www.toequest.com/forum/the-hi...verything.html Even though some of what I propose in my first post may even sound great (maybe to Drifter), I can't accept it myself or live by it for it is just a theory based on not very much. One has to be careful not to let assumptions turn into rules to live by. Many human mammals guess at things and then claim a proof of a truth. |
As long as man can wonder at the marvels of this world...he will always find something to challenge. Rest in Peace A.
ps Thanks for you suggestion/post, much ado here with moving (only one nobody here)I will have to catch up again later.
There's really nobody to know, you know, all our intelligence comes from outside sources really.
We merely "receive" through our illuminecent/illuminating capacity, call them reflections/illusions or "reality" it really makes no difference...When the candle goes out, then we'll all be G
nostics. Nothing arbitrary or ambiguous about that.
puff, the last feeble sound we hear in this realm, when nobody finaly goes home and the incessant one subsides...finally leaving us in our blissful sleep and everlasting peace. amen = (so be it)