SafeAsMilk wrote:The mind isn't in the brain now? Way to shit on any credibility you may have had left
IMO this is the claim of mediocrity , who fail to see outside the box.
I agree with Prof. Roger Penrose, a mathematician with radical new ideas.
He doesn't go as far as myself in defining the non-physical /information realm
as the mind and a realm outside of the physical/non-physical as that of conscious being,
nonetheless at least he sees a non-physical realm of information.
"Many philosophers, and others, would argue that mathematics consists
merely of idealised mental concepts, and, if the world of mathematics
is to be regarded as arising ultimately from our minds, then we have
reached a circularity: our minds arise from the functioning of our physical brains,
and the very precise physical laws that underlie that functioning
are grounded in the mathematics that requires our brains for its existence.
My own position is to avoid this immediate paradox by allowing the
Platonic mathematical world its own timeless and locationless existence,
while allowing it to be accessible to us through mental activity.
My viewpoint allows for three different kinds of reality:
the physical, the mental and the Platonic-mathematical,
with something (as yet) profoundly mysterious in the relations between the three.
We do not properly understand why it is that physical behavior is
mirrored so precisely within the Platonic world, nor do we have much
understanding of how conscious mentality seems to arise when physical material,
such as that found in wakeful healthy human brains, is organized in just the
right way. Nor do we really understand how it is that consciousness, when
directed towards the understanding of mathematical problems, is capable
of divining mathematical truth. What does this tell us about the nature of
physical reality? It tells us that we cannot properly address the question of
that reality without understanding its connection with the other two realities:
conscious mentality and the wonderful world of mathematics."
New Scientist, November 18{24 2006
For a patient to heal the shaman uses any device, which will alter the patient's belief about reality.