Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Brent Meeker<meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: On 1/25/2018 4:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > A brain, if this is confirmed, is a consciousness filter. It makes us > less conscious, and even less intelligent, but more efficacious in the > terrestrial plane.
But a little interference with it and our consciousness is drastically changed...that's how salvia and whiskey work. A little more interference and consciousness is gone completely (ever had a concussion?). Consciousness seems very emergent to me, in its nature and its dependence upon a substrate (perhaps not necessarily material at the fundamental level) upon which its temporal braided web of patterns can be structured, maintained in focus, stored, recalled, and re-imagined. Although also an incredibly noisy place (like a huge room with walls that reverb filled with people all talking at once, in reference to the signal to noise ratio of the crackling network of a hundred billion very chatty neurons) the brain, and hence the emergent conciousness arising within the complex topography of our minds is sensitive to becoming altered and even disrupted. As anyone who has ever had a few too many drinks can testify. I find it interesting how the brain, the highly folded physical neural cortex and the still poorly understood connector and glial actors in this organ of self awareness... how we experience the exquisitely serene experience of our emergent being and are spared the utter cacophony that is the actual electrical manifestation of our being within the wet chemistry of our brains (most of us at least, schizophrenia sufferers not so lucky)-Chris Brent -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
