Principles of neural sciences

[SteveA]

We don't so much have to strain to see far out, but that it comes to us.

I agree, but then again do you want it to simply come to/at you or do you want to have a say in how it comes to/at you?

You're probably right that at some fundamental level it simply does "come to us", but then again if experiences are not directly of that form, then there's some leeway to work with and apply ones values to it. If there's a value to a TOE beyond simply its construction, then I'd assume that's where the important details lie.

On the other hand, there could be some paradoxical aspects to that last statement.

Anyway, if you'd like to discuss more conventional forms of cognition or neural computation etc., we can do that too (though I have a hard time avoiding trying to extrapolate things out to extremes ... just a habit I've acquired).

[Summaria]

I don't think this is going anywhere, even on fifty hands.

[SteveA]

You may be right.

[Drifter]

http://trevorstone.org/essays/wisefool.html

We gladly surrender/sacrifice our Childhood of inocense to the rapier of our Ego.

What is normal?

[Drifter]

http://trevorstone.org/essays/wisefool.html

We gladly surrender our Chidhood innocense to the rapier of our Ego.

What is TRUTH?

First Cause:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/First_cause

[Drifter]

What Phenomenal Consciousness is like:
http://mit.edu/abyrne/www/what_phen_conc_is_like.html

[4] Lycan adds facts about“functional organization” (1996: 11) to the intentional supervenience base for phenomenal character. On a more careful statement of intentionalism than the one given here, this is an intentionalist view. See Byrne 2001: 204-6.

[Drifter]

http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?...d=882&Itemid=1

"The light that gradually dawns on him consists in his understanding that his fantasy is a real psychic process which is happening to him personally." (Jung p. 528-529) This sentence from the book sums-up its content.


In this work Jung demonstrates that Alchemy was a precursor to modern Western psychological insight. Jung draws a "process map" of the Alchemy in this volume, in which he laboriously (but not tediously) shows that the steps the alchemists took to bring about the transformation of matter. Jung suggests that this process is a metaphoric representation of a process some humans travel to reach a level of consciousness that includes and unites the unseen (transcendent) reality with the visible experience.

It can be read as an interesting intellectual insight into earlier Western thought, or it can be used by an individual as a guide through the process of psychological transformation. This work is essential to anyone on the path of transformation and who looks to Jung as a guide on that path. It is not for a casual reader of Jung.

[Drifter]

Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives on Hobbes that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists.

The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) [Paperback]

Tom Sorell (Editor)