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Storm
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Brain specialists, Prof. J.C.Eccles, Sir Cyril Burt, Dr.Wilder Penfield and Prof.W.H.Thorpe stated that in their opinion the brain appears to be more a complicated organism to register and channel consciousness rather than produce it. "The brain is messenger to consciousness", Eccles said. In his famous debate with philosopher Popper "The self and its brain" this matter was examined further.
Interesting! Thoughts?
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 08:42:47 [Permalink]
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Cuneiformist
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 08:45:56 [Permalink]
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Hey, Storm, welcome back!  |
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Cuneiformist
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 08:47:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm
Brain specialists, Prof. J.C.Eccles, Sir Cyril Burt, Dr.Wilder Penfield and Prof.W.H.Thorpe stated that in their opinion the brain appears to be more a complicated organism to register and channel consciousness rather than produce it. "The brain is messenger to consciousness", Eccles said. In his famous debate with philosopher Popper "The self and its brain" this matter was examined further.
Interesting! Thoughts?
Where was this from? It's hard to make comments on something like this without placing it in a larger context. Can you link it or reference the book/article? |
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Storm
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 09:40:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cune
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It's hard to make comments on something like this without placing it in a larger context.
Is it so hard...
Just think about what I have said throughout all of my posts.... on energy.... consciousness... Without references, articles, etc... just think about it as the individual you are...
The brain is merely the messenger.... of consciousness...
The link is somewhere in here: http://www.parapsych.org/journal_abstracts.html
Have fun searching... be open to the possibilities....... |
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Dude
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 10:11:07 [Permalink]
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Just think about what I have said throughout all of my posts.... on energy.... consciousness... Without references, articles, etc... just think about it as the individual you are...
To paraphrase something Kil once said about another post like this one: It must be liberating, to go through life totally unencumbered by evidence, or even the desire for it.
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Storm
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 10:32:02 [Permalink]
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Did you even take the time to do the research on what I have proposed Dude? Did you take the time to even search what I quoted?
Originally posted by Dude
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It must be liberating, to go through life totally unencumbered by evidence, or even the desire for it.
I agree Dude... It really must be.....
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Dude
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 11:53:57 [Permalink]
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Did you even take the time to do the research on what I have proposed Dude? Did you take the time to even search what I quoted?
You quoted what, exactly? You threw out a couple of names and made yet another claim that is entirely unsupported by evidence. Then, when asked for info, you post a link to a site and say "The link is somewhere in here."
Again, for the 10,000th time, when YOU make a claim, the burden of evidence is on YOU, not anyone else. If you haven't picked up on that most basic concept in your time here, then I don't know what else to say.
As for your OP, I'm not sure what a "brain specialist" is? None of the names you drop, without citing a study or credentials, is familair to me. What leads your experts to form their current opinion? What specific data?
Atleast you put in the right folder, because it definitely REEKS of pseudoscientific nonsense.
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Cuneiformist
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 12:04:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm
Just think about what I have said throughout all of my posts.... on energy.... consciousness... Without references, articles, etc... just think about it as the individual you are...
But this is the worst way to approach something! Imagine if I told you to seriously consider the work of Zecharia Sitchin without considering other scholars' views on ancient Mesopotamian history or astronomy. What if I told you to consider evolution based only on a few quotes from Johnson's Darwin on Trial? How could a non-specialist address some of his points without seeing Johnson's arguments in context, and without hearing what others have to say? |
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 12:34:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm
Brain specialists, Prof. J.C.Eccles, Sir Cyril Burt, Dr.Wilder Penfield and Prof.W.H.Thorpe stated that in their opinion the brain appears to be more a complicated organism to register and channel consciousness rather than produce it. "The brain is messenger to consciousness", Eccles said. In his famous debate with philosopher Popper "The self and its brain" this matter was examined further.
Interesting! Thoughts?
Gotta throw a flag on this one.
1) Linking to a parapsycological website which does not contain the article in question muddies the issue at hand.
2) Sir Cyril L. Burt (1883 - 1971) used fraudulent data to advance personal theories.
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eintell/burt.shtml
3) J.C.Eccles (1903 - 1997) Nobel prize winner for his work in neurology but had no papers that I can find which advanced such poppycock. He did write something on the neurophysological basis of the mind.
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000382b.htm
4) Wilder Penfeld (1891 - 1976) did groundbreaking work on finding where things are housed in the brain. Also, did not advance the main premise of the argument.
http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/bios/Penfield.html
5) W.H.Thorpe (1902 - 1986) British Ethologist who discovered birds learned their songs. Did not advance the main thrust of the argument.
6) Since the earliest any of these three could have worked together is 1971, you will need to provide the source for this assertation.
It is unclear if the statement is a medical opinion or a philisophical one. You even quote a debate between a philosopher (or as Mel Brooks put in in History of the World Part 1, a bullshit artist.) and J. C. Eccles which tends to indicate a philispohical arguement rather than a medical opinion.
Thoughts? Parapsychological poppycock. Twaddle. Irrelavent philosophical musings by men of science.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 12:38:42 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Storm
"The brain is messenger to consciousness", Eccles said. In his famous debate with philosopher Popper "The self and its brain" this matter was examined further.
Interesting! Thoughts?
I'm skeptical to the idea that the brain is only relaying consciousness from somewhere else. Since it is an extraordinary claim, I think you should provide extraordinary evidence to back it up.
In this article Massimo Pigliucci writes about his observation of consciousness, and his conclusion is that it is a function of the brain interpreting the information from the rest of the body.
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Ricky
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Storm
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 14:07:12 [Permalink]
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I have made no claim. Just a statement that reflects the possibilities of what consciousness is and where it ultimetly resides. I have done MYresearch on the subjects probably more than most of you. I have left numerous links for all of you to investigate what I have discussed here.
I have come to the realization that most of your guys consciousness lies in your ... Well let me not be rude like others...
You want extraordinary proof... Do the research...
And really just because your a skpetic doesn't mean you cannot be philisophical...
Most of you are all just True Believers anyway... |
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 14:36:30 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm
I have made no claim. Just a statement that reflects the possibilities of what consciousness is and where it ultimetly resides.
AKA. A claim.
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I have done MYresearch on the subjects probably more than most of you.
I researched the men associated with the claim and you did not source your statement. You are the claimant, the burden of proof or even source cites is on you. Not us.
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I have left numerous links for all of you to investigate what I have discussed here.
Links were invalid to this claim, sassy.
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I have come to the realization that most of your guys consciousness lies in your ... Well let me not be rude like others...
You want extraordinary proof... Do the research...
Classic shifting the burden of proof to a non-claimant.
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And really just because your a skpetic doesn't mean you cannot be philisophical...
Most of you are all just True Believers anyway...
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 05/09/2005 : 14:43:33 [Permalink]
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You have not done a shred of "research," which would be to look into the truth of a matter. You have cherry picked various articles that interest you, often written as pure speculation backed up by little to no science. You then somehow come to believe that because someone, somewhere has speculated along the same dubious lines of thought as you that you have done "research" which supports your theory. As has been explained to you in the past, 10,000 articles speculating on ghosts or the origin of consciousness does not evidence make if they are baseless bullshit.
I could come up with a "theory" that time travelers have visited the earth in the recent past. I could then "research" various comic books and tabloid news articles which support my theory. Maybe I could cite Einstein's theory of relativity. I could throw out the name of some PhD's or explain in vague terms what experiments in quantum mechanics reveal about the nature of time. NONE of that would be research. No one should consider my "theory" as anything other than pure fantasy, especially if when pressed for sources I merely shrieked "Do your own research!"
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Most of you are all just True Believers anyway...
Believers in what exactly, Storm? In critical thinking? The scientific method? In demanding proper experiment protocols and standards of evidence? Yes, yes, and yes.
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