[MD] Mystics and Brains

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ham Priday <hampday1 at verizon.net>:

> Arlo, Platt, Craig --
> 
> > Our minds have us continually reflecting back or projecting
> > forward, and we rarely are "in" that "endless now".
> 
> Actually the phrase "endless now" is an oxymoron in a constantly changing
> world.

Except the present is our constant companion even when our imagination wanders.

> As Case has argued, sense data traveling to and from the brain takes
> several microseconds to be processed as cognizance, so that none of us is
> really conscious of the 'infinitesimal present', and all cognizance is
> reflective of
> past experience.

We're conscious of what for us is the infinitesimal present.

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> Indeed, Science is far from understanding the complexities of consciousness,
> and its objective methodology will never reveal the true nature of
> proprietary sensibility.

Yes. Mind cannot observe itself any more than an eye can see itself or an ear
hear itself.



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