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-----Original Message-----Arthur,
From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:43 PM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: But where's the mind?
At 08:26 28/05/2003 -0400, you wrote:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it." (Aristotle)
I entertain the thought that there is a mind. Who knows maybe the mind is just the noise of the brain. Maybe not.
Yes, I believe the mind is the "noise" of the brain, but not just noise.
As for other powers, like the big guy upstairs or quantum universe: Who knows.
For me the only intellectually comfortable position is to be an agnostic. It is all interesting. It all means something--even if it's man's search for meaning. But I don't know, I don't know that I will ever know and am comfortable with uncertainty.
I wouldn't be comfortable with pure agnosticism because (for me) this would deprive life of meaning and I would feel lonely. I'm a sort of believer-agnostic. I believe that there is more significance in the universe than is implied by science alone. Without this feeling of significance, then anything goes. I think that something worthwhile believing in will shape up in due course and indeed will be necessary if society is ever to hold itself together -- and, hopefully, reformulate. We are living in a strange inter-regnum period for the moment.
Keith
Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England
