... compared to the neurology of the zebra fish. the 'metaphysical' aspect is in the differences in LABELS derived to refer to the ONE set of qualities - so...
Leon Maurer This is utter simplistic and superficial nonsense -- with no real scientific or rational basis whatsoever... Since none of what is described or...
Well actually, I think this is a wonderful illusion! Fantasy she may be, but she's beautiful! Whichever leg I see bouncing on the floor. Sometimes it's the...
Hi everyone, Reductive Types A-C physicalism (Chalmers' classification) is rejected by non-reductive Types D-F views because the original explanatory gap ...
Hi Glen, ... CL: The focus in IDM is what comes out of *self-referencing* the differentiate/integrate (aka what/where) dichotomy. Past researchers have not...
... BB - these terms are all re-definitions of differentiating/integrating and show attempts to customise perspectives and so justify the perspectives as being...
... RKS: I have a problem will all models of qualia that propose qualia as fundamental properties of sensorial information. If I may reiterate your abstract:-...
... Nevertheless, all electro-chemical transformations between the synapses have to be accompanied by electromagnetic fields -- with the magnetic radiation...
... So, how does that tell us where all these levels of reality started from and began involving and evolving. ... Nevertheless ABC theory describes actual...
Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) - Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve...
Robert, I'm rather dubious about all this - not so much the details as the idea that it's all a reconstructed illusion. I suspect there's an unconscious...
Human Decision-making Takes Multiple Brain Regions Performing Individual Functions ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2007) - The brain, the human supercomputer, might work...
Mike, you make a good point. I think you are both right and wrong. In my opinion you are right in stating that 'science does not know a lot' (I would not...
Mike Tintner: I'm rather dubious about all this - not so much the details as the idea that it's all a reconstructed illusion. I suspect there's an unconscious...
Reply to Mike Tintner: The issue that you raise, i.e. whether visual experience is an illusion, like a scene on a television screen, or whether experience...
... human ... It doesnt - that is not the job of IDM. IDM simply identifies the source of meaning and so what our labels represent when we link the set of...
... dichotomy. Past researchers have not covered this. The simple act of mapping out the qualiteis derivable from the self-referencing, free of any specialist...
Hi Robert, Thanks for comments. My replies are given below. RKS: I have a problem will [with] all models of qualia that propose qualia as fundamental...
Volume 21 | Issue 11 | Page 20 ... By Andrea Gawrylewski ... Facelessness, faced ... After giving a lecture in Windsor, England last February, neuroscientist...
... <snip> ... I see your bias - your focus is instinctively on behaviour and so behaviour analysis - you focus on what is observed. BUT we have moved beyond...
RKS: If I may reiterate your abstract:- "Deterministic reductive monism and non-reductive dualism are two opposite views for consciousness and both have...
How Ventriloquists Trick The Brain: Sight, Sound Processed Together And Earlier Than Previously Thought ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2007) - The area of the brain...
Hi Steven, Thanks for the ref. - your paper seemed most interesting - http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/webstuff/bubw3/bubw3.html though I've only had time to...
Ram and Robert: i usually keep my distance from the 'visual field' topic, it includes too much hubris in the immense volume people of the various reductionst...
Hi Robert, Thanks for comments. The terms `consciousness' and `qualia' are confusing because they may have different meaning to different people. Therefore, I...
... illusion, ... hot ... [S.P.] What is important in a discussion on visual experience is a necessity to separate the cutlets from the flies. I mean that we...
Mike Tintner: Hi Steven, Thanks for the ref. - your paper seemed most interesting - http://cns-alumni.bu.edu/~slehar/webstuff/bubw3/bubw3.html though I've only...
Hi Robert, Thanks for comments. The terms `consciousness' and `qualia' are confusing because they may have different meaning to different people. Therefore, I...