tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749160758467928634.post5037112604438625539..comments2024-03-14T00:18:52.831-07:00Comments on Quantum Spirit: Philosophers to Probe ConsciousnessGregory LeFeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11872137290650811690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749160758467928634.post-72662769491599287352009-01-27T09:03:00.000-08:002009-01-27T09:03:00.000-08:00Thank you for your comment, George. What I think I...Thank you for your comment, George. What I think I see happening on several fronts ~ at least I hope so ~ is the most aggressive movement by scientists since the 18th century to reconcile Science with the mysteries it heretofore discounted. And you couldn't be more correct in your statement regarding the mind-body wrestling match. <BR/><BR/>If we must throw our support to one side or the other, I, like you, will opt for the Platonic/Hermetic/Sufi/Zen view and all that it encompasses.Gregory LeFeverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11872137290650811690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749160758467928634.post-7011651145423935152009-01-27T04:44:00.000-08:002009-01-27T04:44:00.000-08:00“How is it even possible for purely physical brain...“How is it even possible for purely physical brain activity to produce conscious experience?” I would flip the question: How is it possible for consciousness to produce physical brain activity? I think that question is more true to our situation than the former. I appreciate science, having been trained within that realm, performed experiments and published within peer-reviewed journals. It has its place. But science has painted itself into a corner stance by starting off with a premise of mind-body split. That of course occurs by taking the slab of meat, as marvelous as it is, as the starting point -- a decision that has and will yield fruit but leads one to ask zen koan-like questions which can only be resolved phenomenologically. These researchers may get continuous funding because their investigations using "scientific" methods will never come to a conclusion. Anyhoo, that's some of my thoughts on the matter.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for posting this, Gregory. I appreciate their studies and also appreciate that the pursuit of understanding through the Aristotelian logic of science runs a very different course than the opening to understanding via Plato and Hermes and Ibn 'Arabi and others of the so-called "mystic" disciplines.George Breedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16460918581432345337noreply@blogger.com