An experiment a few minutes ago, i tried to retrieve the three Andrew Sisters singing the ( the bugle boy of company three),harmony and all !,and was able to do it . I wonder what else is in there that would be useful.
AB On Sep 16, 2012, at 9:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I wrote: > > "what comes into your head [when you hear a "word"-sound] are solely bits > of memory retrieved and mosaicked by your racy brain as it frisks the > familiar sound, and creates your me-meaning." > > Lew wrote: > > "Cheerskep's model seems good enough to me with the possible objection > that one can't quite characterize the brain as an independently > thinking part of the mind. Even this can be answered, I think. > I'd also like to thank him for my "racy, frisky" brain. Sometimes I > wonder." > > Lew's remark rightly focuses us on the cataract of different notion flowing > through our consciousness as we use the words 'brain' and 'mind'. With > 'brain' I tend to have in mind the pullulating lump of neural links, the "meat", > inside my skull. A "brain injury" is, to me, a physical event. > > 'Mind' is much fuzzier. > > I'm a dualist. I won't try to defend that position here; I'll only try to > convey an incomplete, colorful and effectively indefensible description of > the position. Broadly, I accept that there is a physical brain, but I cannot > shake the belief that there is also a non-physical entity-of-sorts - > consciousnesness: awareness, waking thoughts, feelings, sensations. > > The Nobelist Gerald Edelman defines human consciousness as being: > "... what you lose on entering a dreamless deep sleep ... deep anesthesia > or coma ... what you regain after emerging from these states. [The] > experience of a unitary scene composed variably of sensory responses ... memories ... > situatedness ... " > > I'll add to Edelman's effort all "potential" consciousness - what's often > referred to as the "subconscious" or "unconscious". And to this > conglomerate of "sciousness" I'll further add the C.O.O. - the Chief Operating Officer > of the conglomerate - the "you" that Edelman talks of falling into a deep > and dreamless sleep. > > (To be fair to Edelman, I should report the man rejects dualism! The > "physicalist" would evidently point to a wriggling neuron in my brain and say, > "That's your pain." To which I would have the standard reply "Like hell it is! > That may be some sort of physical correlative, but it's even less my pain > than the light is the light-bulb." ((And I'd go on to use other feckless > figurative efforts to convey my dualist conviction.))) > > In sum, for me the mind is (fuzzily) the sum of the non-physical > "thinking/feeling/imagining/etc" stuff that is my "awareness". > > All of this is by way of saying nay when Lew characterizes me as believing > "the brain is an independently thinking part of the mind". If anything, > it's more the other way around.
