[Drifter]

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.

I will try to come back to this unless my computer gives uo "The Ghost". It's Smokin!?...Toast Anyone?... Coffee and Crumpets???

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s42mrd...eature=related