[MD] MD: Consciousness Beyond

[ian glendinning]

Ant,

Where's the evidence ? Not a lot, depending on your standards of
evidence, and acceptance of metaphors. I said I didn't discount,
rather than supported / defended. So open-minded angles are.

(1) 100 million new-agers, paranormals and millenia of mystics (and
Bill Hicks) (and a fair bunch of open-minded scientific sceptics)
can't all be wrong, can they ?

(2) I said "some aspect of" consciousness. I've got about as far as
some level of information communication underlying consciousness (and
the rest of nature and the MoQ). Don't panic - I'm nowhere close to
believing that anything like full formed intentional consciousness
exists independently of the rest of nature. Whatever the truth of (1)
is, it's not supernatural.

(3) Caveat metaphor. It's linguistic and conceptual metaphors all the
way down. So conversations with the likes of Scott, and some of the
more sensible mystics and theists still need to be taken seriously.

Ian

On 1/9/06, Ant McWatt <antmcwatt at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian,
>
> Hope you enjoy the Bill Hicks CDs (always good to play when the in-laws are
> visiting!)
>
> Anyway, you stated:
>
> >What I do not discount though, is the
> >reality of some aspect of consciousness beyond the single human brain.
>
> Sorry, if you've mentioned this elsewhere but what's the evidence for this?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Anthony.
>
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