On 6/19/2014 1:18 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Let's put it this way - the existence of consciousness can't been
demonstrated by physical ontology because consciousness is a
spiritual ontology.
Which is another way of saying you'd just rather not think about
it. Or at least will refuse to be happy with the answer.
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Neuroscience doesn't have much to say about spiritual cosmology. Renes
Descarte believed the physical body was separate from the mind, thus
creating a mind-body dualism. In contrast, the ancient Indians had a lot
to say about spiritual cosmology. They postulated that /consciousness is
a process of self-awareness/. And, consciousness is also a way of
knowing and being intentional.
According to the early Buddhists (before the schism) adherents of the
so-called Consciousness Only school believed that consciousness was the
only reality - everything else was just an appearance, not real, yet not
unreal either. The authors of the Upanishads worked out a philosophical
system that was light-years ahead of Western speculation about the
mystery of consciousness.
And, the yogins of ancient India supplemented the philosophy with yoga -
a method to experience pure consciousness. According to Eliade, yoga is
native to India and appears nowhere else in world civilizations. The
idea of a transcendental field that can be known through free will is
apparently unique to South Asia.
