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Is experience the nervous and neuronic systems?

Varde June 09, 2022 at 10:22 1400 views 4 comments
Knowing, believing- wisdom, sense, want- is all experience the nervous system and neuro-transmission?

Do we attribute value elsewhere, for some magnitude of pleasure is present?

Knowing for example is just some feeling of the nervous system and mental pattern generated by neuro-transmitters. However, we attribute value elsewhere. For knowledge, understood data(it's definition), etc.

Perhaps this is because of pleasure, it's pleasurable to be a part of experience. It seems realistic (though it could be a trick of the mind; such as a illusion in a 2D image) and I take pleasure from it's reality- is pleasure is key to mind?

However, is pleasure targetable? Is the tree we sense, a tree, or part of total experience(oneness, experience as one thing)? If it is reduced to nervous system and neuro-transmission, can anything experienced be completely real? Does believing require imagination?

Comments (4)

Wayfarer June 09, 2022 at 11:02 #706929
Quoting Varde
Knowing for example is just some feeling of the nervous system and mental pattern generated by neuro-transmitters….


…if you’re a lizard…..
Varde June 09, 2022 at 11:05 #706930
Reply to Wayfarer you don't agree. Why if we're lizards? I'm a little confused at what I wrote anyway...
Cuthbert June 09, 2022 at 15:37 #706992
Quoting Varde
I'm a little confused at what I wrote anyway...


Not too much. When we experience something, specific events happen in our bodies and brains. I think you are asking: Is our experience identical with those events?

Then you are wondering: If the answer to the first question is 'yes', then can we experience anything other than events happening in our bodies and brains?

I happen to think that the answer to the first is 'no' and to the second is 'question doesn't make sense'. But there are arguments on both sides.

Varde June 09, 2022 at 15:44 #706995
Cuthbert:I think you are asking: Is our experience identical with those events?


Definitely what I'm asking.

You provided the answer 'no', which I also believe.

I suggested that what our experience is, is a seismic pleasurable "magnitude"(for no use of a better term)- but heck do I know I've only stumbled on the idea earlier.