Brain Food
Here's an article all about consciousness. Quick firing and to the point.
"...and the feature they find least controversial is the one that many people outside the field find the most shocking. Francis Crick called it "the astonishing hypothesis"--the idea that our thoughts, sensations, joys and aches consist entirely of physiological activity in the tissues of the brain. Consciousness does not reside in an ethereal soul that uses the brain like a PDA; consciousness is the activity of the brain."
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I liked it.
So is he saying that all of our thoughts and feelings and intuition are a product of our minds and not of our souls? --That we don't necessarily even have souls? I dunno. That's just a weird concept. I don't want to make this a faith/spiritual thing, but it just seems like not everything can be processed from the brain; and not everything can be known or remembered from experiences and learned facts. It seems like consciousness isn't related to things like empathy and love. The guy prolly explained it somewhere in the article, but I still don't get it.
It's a hard concept to wrap one's mind around, but I always have to keep in mind that it is entirely more PLAUSIBLE for our consciousness to be mapped out in this fashion (no soul, just brain tissue, etc).
My personal belief is that there is some type of a soul, but that is just my opinion. It really doesn't carry much weight since my consciousness is evaluating itself (system evaluating its own system). Who knows though.
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