On Sun 4/19/98 21:15 -0400 Jason Rosenberg wrote:
>> As far as I'm concerned, the entire nervous system is required for
> any experiments regarding human consciousness. To try and take a small
> piece of the brain and try to analyze it in isolation would be taking
> things out of context. You might learn something interesting and
> fascinating to be sure, but you must take into account the full
> extent of the beast, with utmost importance on the perceptual
> and motor system, for without these, no consciousness can be said
> to exist in any real world.
Sadly, the above paragraph begins at the human level and ends with
consciousness in general; however, it addresses only phenomenological
consciousness and makes no mention of ontological consciousness.
For a more comprehensive view of consciousness, per se, and a new
perspective concerning Descartes' Mind/Body problem, go to
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/etiology.htm.
--
Alan
Spontaneous self-organization is to the life sciences
as perpetual motion machines are to physics.
Consciousness, Physics and the Holographic Paradigm:
http://www.livingston.net/hermital/intro.htm
