[MD] Heads or tails?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Platt]
> Which begs the question, "How does mind emerge from the mindless?" Science
> is still struggling with the answer wouldn't you agree?
> 
> [Case]
> No.

"If the world consists only of patterns of mind and patterns of matter, what is the
relationship between the two? If you read the hundreds of volumes of philosophy
available on this matter you may conclude that nobody knows —or at least knows well
enough to convince everybody else. There is the materialist school that says reality
is all matter, which creates mind. There is the idealist school that says it is all
mind, which creates matter. There is the positivist school which says this argument
could go on forever; drop the subject." (Lila, 12)

I agree with Pirsig. Nobody knows well enough to convince everybody else, including
many scientists.

"Consciousness is widely viewed as the last frontier of science. Modern science may
have split the atom and solved the mystery of life, but it has yet to explain the
source of conscious feelings."  -- Adopted from "Introducing Consciousness" by
David Papineau and Howard Selina, Icon Books

http://www.21stcentury.co.uk/science/consciousness.asp



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