Cijadrachon wrote:
> >> Slowly a shared experience emerges developing a conscious in the collective mind.
> Consciousness defined as what in which collective mind (defined how)
> on what base?
>> >> No single frame of reference will be adequate for knowing the truth.
Every person is unique and to fully understand a person it is necessary to understand one's
culture, ethnic identity, and other sociocultural factors.
Virtually every person views persons of different cultures/ walks of life as inferior to their
own.
> > i.e., that the world we live in is a perception created by the mind
the world is the world.
Or in other words I can call a pebble a gummi bear, but it is still a
rock, and if you bite into it you might find out the hard way.
(2 + 2 = 4 and not 5.)
The human mind resembles a computer as it receives, changes, stores, retrieves, and uses
information. But, unlike a computer, the mind is an information processing system that actively
seeks information and transforms it to create a 'view of reality.'
> Brains are very very different in sector use, magic colour transition,
> magic ranges and abilities, sector segregation capacities, parallel
> processing capacities and in a lot of other areas.
It is striking the importance that magic has according to Mr. Cijadrachon, a misperception due
to too many mind-altering* drugs, as his many cited experiences bear witness (IMO).
> Perception is very different in humans.
Perception is not black or white as you presume to say. Hungry college students are more likely
to interpret ambiguous pictures as being of food; sexually aroused males perceive females as
being more attractive physically; anxious individuals are more likely to interpret ambiguous
sentences as threatening, and poor children estimate the size of coins as larger than children
from higher income brackets. It has to do with one's circumstance, and there are so many other
factors that influence perception it baffles the mind. The original poster took a Western
'perspective' of what perspective really is, while cijadrachon takes his view of reality from
very subjective images that reflect his own range of experience.
Thank you,
Peter L. Sargent
* Mind altering drugs refers to 'psychotropic drugs,' the class of drugs that alters
conscious experience.