You just move like a mouse, or do so abnormally like a mutant mouse The brain is no longer a mysterious black box. Elucidation of the human genome is having a...
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... From: John <jamikes@...> Subject: Re: [Mind and Brain] What is the Self? To: MindBrain@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 10:28 AM ...
OOPS! I fell into the semantic trap and excluded myself from your "each of us". No, (while I hope to consider myself as a 'he') I was talking about 'the...
leonmaurer@...> wrote: How does the physical action of cyclically transferring information between one objective form of matter-energy to another generate the...
[I thought it would be intersting to ask oneself, 'why there are musical genes?', as described in the recent post by RKS] The Dynamic Quality of Cells,...
Young children rely on one sense or another, not a combination, studies find Unlike adults, children younger than eight can't integrate different forms of...
Exploring our conceptions of the conscious self, one may be inclined to think of the IDM theory of Chris Lofting as a form of radical reflexivity. Not radical ...
You're welcome, Sam. I'm glad you found the article useful. Even though I won't be involved in the Music conversation, since I'm not capable, I look forward to...
Chris, I humblly apologize if I offended your human superiority feelings. Yes, a dog does not recite Shakespeare's Sonettes and a thermostat does not reflect...
RKS, your posts are usually worth reading and are informative. To this one, however, I would question to apply in our discussions an experience taken from...
... <snip> ... You seem to miss the process side of the IDM categories where such processes are identified in the categories and so bring out the universal...
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... LM: That's no answer at all -- since entanglement is an objective phenomena (quantitative), and consciousness (awareness, will, qualia) are subjective...
Sam, I like your questions, but if you assume that there must be an answer for the experience of consciousness that does NOT result in/rely on some kind of...
Dear Members I am new to this group, having joined just in case there might be members here who are interested in the temporal aspect of consciousness. If so,...
... between ... qualia) ... A - (Less short) The conscious pattern (formed by means of entanglement of distributed brain activity) controls the (voluntary) ...
... <snip> ... What IDM indicates is that the issues of the 'infinite regress' do not exist in those life forms lacking high resolution skills, high...
CL wrote: You seem to miss the process side of the IDM categories ST writes: Within the evolution of events, when the focus is on movement in change, one...
Such a conception of consciousness embodied within quantum entanglement is mysterious. ... wrote: A - (Less short) The conscious pattern (formed by means of...
Hi George. Welcome to the group. I am very new to this group also. I have an interest in consciousness/perception in the frontal and temporal lobes. Things...
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The dynamics of being forced to make distinctions opens up choices in behaviours that allow us to make 'good habits' and so fit in easily with whatever context...
Hello Mark It seems that I did not adequately define my field of interest, which has to do with 'consciousness with respect to time' and not with the temporal...
... The neurology through oscillations does that, not me. The chaos game does that, not me. And THAT is my point. Out of the containment of noise comes order...