Brock Harding

I did a redraft, hope this is clearer: Consciousness What we perceive, feel, and think is experienced from a unique internal perspective. Descartes wa...

Consciousness is not one of the two perspectives. The two perspectives are fundamental to consciousness and the emergence of evolved sentience. Can yo...

Environmental factors often impact organisms either in positive or negative ways. Internal and External Environments If there is anything that is stea...

Any organism that can construct a concurrent internal and external viewpoint is able to identify capabilities and the direction of how best to use the...

Not really, what I am actually saying in my discussion post is that any organism that can construct a concurrent internal and external viewpoint is ab...

According to my description of consciousness: "I believe that the concurrent experience of these two perspectives (inner/external) is what we experien...

In fact I think mental illness in general is a good example of how the quasi-perceptual cognitive process, including the hard problems of consciousnes...

Anxiety disorder is a good example. Plenty of information available on its neurological causes.

According to dualism without a driver would mean that the car is controlled by the 'Subdriverness' and with a driver it is controlled by the 'Driverne...

I guess we could but I think a deeper insight is needed. I think describing the brain as having a 'consciousness' is kind of like saying your car has ...

I will see if I can put something coherent together on it. Would you like me to solve world peace whilst I am at it? :)

I guess I was speaking to that term in the above quote.

Thanks, I have looked into it and now understand the term.

Thinking is not an illusion, the concept that you need a non-physical entity to think is. Makes sense to me in the context of your prior reply - you s...

No, haven't heard of it.

More or less. My citing of consciousness, mind etc is in the context of the dualistic view which I understand is why those terms were created. I guess...

Thinking is not an illusion, the concept that you need a non-physical entity to think is.

I am in no way suggesting that physical processes are an illusion. I am proposing that our non-physical interpretation of them is. To cite your exampl...

If you think of the 'Soul Ideology' as referring to the mind then I guess you have an early iteration of psychology.

I understand. I think the concepts of ethics and morality, in contemplation of the soul, are still valid but you are correct; I am postulating that se...

I am also conscious of not dismissing centuries of contemplation of the 'soul' which has undoubtedly yielded moral and ethical value to society.

Yep, same theme just wanted to redraft it. I believe that the mind is a physical function of the brain and incorporates both the conscience and sub-co...

The idea of the body having a distinct soul is certainly a wide spread contemporary assumption. If you do some cursory google searches on Ancient Gree...

It certainly has, perhaps postulating otherwise is futile but I think it is worth considering other perspectives if only as an intellectual exercise.

Appreciate your comments but the original post was more about shifting perspective on how we view what our 'being' is more broadly comprised of. I fin...

'Getting beyond our constructs' reminds of that scene in the movie 'The Matrix' where Morpheus offers Neo the blue or red pill. It appears you want th...

Love the Peter Pan analogy. I guess one of the points I was trying to make is that the spirit and the soul do not exist and are merely artificial cons...

Thanks. I will work up the content over time to better express what I want to say.

I guess the point is that the mind forms how we perceive ourselves, others and reality. It determines our reactions and behaviour. It is our soul. By ...

The idea is that readers come to their own realisations.

I do have more to say but I am conscious not to limit the perspectives of any readers. I prefer to let readers form their own minds.

Hey, it takes a little while to sink in but what I am saying is that the soul is the mind. I think these days we get so focussed on the details and me...

Plato's work is also interesting in the aspect that this is obviously a dilemma considered by earlier ages than ours.

Excuse my ignorance but what is the purpose behind peak experiences if not to rationalise sensory input? I think we sometimes get our heads buried in ...

Talk of peak experiences brings to mind Plato's 'Allegory of the cave'. Check it out if you haven't already.

Not sure. Possibly the organised neural network reacting to input.

As with most things I believe humanity over thinks things. The closest thing we can get to physical reincarnation is someone being born with the same ...

I feel your pain. Peak experiences, near or otherwise, can create turmoil and confusion. I believe that a true peak experience is inevitably so as it ...

Mental masterbation would certainly explain the widely reported sense of euphoria certain people feel with peak experiences.

I can see a problem with those that do push for peak experiences. I think it is important to be honest about what is conceptualised when someone seeks...

I propose that God is a function of belief which is a physical form of the mind, or brain just to be clear. Accepting that forms of the mind have phys...

Our consciousness, awareness, emotions and views are formed by intermodulation between sensory input and the brain. Physical intermodulation examples ...

I conceptualise thought as an intermodulation between sensory input and the mind resulting in the formation of ideas, emotions, shared perspective etc...