[MD] Ham on Esthesia

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Case]
> It is hard to imagine awareness emerging in the absence of a lump of meat.
> How does that work? Awareness is a biological function.

It's hard to imagine a lot of things, like how does something emerge from
nothing, or how did harmony get to be a criterion of validity in mathematics?
Breathing is a biological function, but that doesn't mean lungs create air.
An Alternate explanation of the phenomenon of awareness is Whitehead's 
panexperientialism which, incidentally, jibes well with the MOQ in which even
quantum particles exhibit preference, suggesting awareness. 

Still waiting for a cogent response from others to your question about what's
different from a monk's mystic experience to a born-again Christian's mystic
experience. To simply say it's a "mystery" doesn't cut it.    




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