Hi spudboy100 Being (mind, life,consciousness, first person singular) isn't part of the spacetime universe. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
----- Receiving the following content ----- From: spudboy100 Receiver: rclough,everything-list Time: 2013-09-14, 14:34:11 Subject: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology >Well, its just an idea that fascinates me. Reading Gerhard t'Hooft in the >1990's sort of set it all in motion. Also Raphael Bousso, in their analysis oh >the universe as hologram, etc. Are we the chuck of matter, or the reflection >in the mirror? That kind of thing. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Roger Clough >To: spudboy100 ; everything-list >Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 12:09 pm >Subject: Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology > > >Hi spudboy100 > >Sure. > > >Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] >See my Leibniz site at >http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > >----- Receiving the following content ----- >From: spudboy100 >Receiver: everything-list,rclough >Time: 2013-09-14, 10:01:02 >Subject: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology > > > > >>One idea I have been kicking around, is viewing through physics, that yes >>mind >is bran, brain is mind, but not totally. More, precisely, the notion that the >data, the pattern identity, the mind, the soul, personality, memory (whatever >we >wish to call it) is analogous to a computer network, where data and >information, >all information, gets written to some sort of media, a long, ways, off. Think >of >this as a read-write function of a storage area network. All server farms have > >remote sites to preserve data, for "disaster recovery." All large companies >have >this, and so do governments as well. I am guessing that this is a feature of >the >cosmos-or really, just, hoping that it is so. >> >>Mitch >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Roger Clough >>To: - Roger Clough >>Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am >>Subject: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology >> >> >> >>Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology >> >> >>Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a >scientific basis. But these results >>are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the >> >view that there is such a >>thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes materialism a joke. Materialism >originated with the Enlightenment >>primarily as a reaction against religion, replacing it with reason, as well >>as >a misinterpretation or reinterpretation >>of Descartes, by claiming that mind can interact with the body, which >>Descartes >maintained were two different >>substances, by instead claiming that both mind and body are matter. That mind >> >is matter is nonsensical. Leibniz >>took the other tack, that of Idealism, in which both brain and mind were >>Mind, >which has the philosophical support >>of Kant and Plato. But the metaphysics of Leibniz are difficult especially in >> >the face of the bad and >>completely non-Cartesian philosophy materialisam because materialism, while >>it >doesn't work for mind, DOES work very well for >>Newtonian mechanics. Hence conventional science these days is swolidly >materialistic and Leibniz's >>platonism is liost to history. I will be posting more on this, but to begin >with you might want to visit my Leibniz site, >> >>http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough >> >> >> >>Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] >>See my Leibniz site at >>http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough >> >>-- >>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"Everything List" group. >>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>email >to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >>Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
