Hi Russell Standish
Roger , [email protected] 8/10/2012 ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-10, 08:04:44 Subject: Re: Libet's experimental result re-evaluated! On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:10:43PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 10 Aug 2012, at 00:23, Russell Standish wrote: > > > > >It is plain to me that thoughts can be either conscious or > >unconscious, and the conscious component is a strict minority of the > >total. > > This is not obvious for me, and I have to say that it is a point > which is put in doubt by the salvia divinorum reports (including > mine). When you dissociate the brain in parts, perhaps many parts, > you realise that they might all be conscious. In fact the very idea > of non-consciousness might be a construct of consciousness, and be > realized by partial amnesia. I dunno. For the same reason I have > stopped to believe that we can be unconscious during sleep. I think > that we can only be amnesic-of-'previous-consciousness'. > With due respect to your salvia experiences, which I dare not follow, I'm still more presuaded by the likes of Daniel Dennett, and his "pandemonia" theory of the mind. In that idea, many subconscious process, working disparately, solve different aspects of the problems at hand, or provide different courses of action. The purpose of consciousness is to select from among the course of action presented by the pandemonium of subconscious processes - admittedly consciousness per se may not be necessary for this role - any unifying (aka reductive) process may be sufficient. The reason I like this, is that it echoes an essentially Darwinian process of random variation that is selected upon. Dawinian evolution is the key to any form of creative process. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
