tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post6824207724249335725..comments2024-03-28T12:46:20.637-04:00Comments on alien romances: The Illusion of ConsciousnessRowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-24910603354541873432009-12-20T11:12:01.679-05:002009-12-20T11:12:01.679-05:00I have found over the years that when an idea seem...I have found over the years that when an idea seems too stupid to believe, and is too easily shot down (e.g., if consciousness is an illusion then who is having the illusion?) it probably means I haven't understood it properly. <br /><br />In this case, I still don't understand it, but I think the idea is that we have a perception of a single personality / "executive I" that considers things, makes decisions, and (most importantly) perseveres over time, so that the "me" in 7th grade is the same as the "me" today. <br /><br />Scientists can't find where this "executive I" resides in the brain. What they can find is a lot of subroutines and such that handle discrete tasks. So they say the "executive I" is an illusion. <br /><br />It doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm going to do some reading to see if I can figure it out.Crowhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02327655974517447377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-5024052313606256242008-08-21T12:30:00.000-04:002008-08-21T12:30:00.000-04:00Anon, your comment reminds me of how Joy Davidman,...Anon, your comment reminds me of how Joy Davidman, the wife of C. S. Lewis, summarized her philosophy before she became a Christian. I wish I could quote it exactly, but it goes something like this: "Politics was just economics. Love was just sex. Sex was just hormones. Matter was just energy. I forget what I said energy was just." Except the examples were a little different, and of course she was much more witty.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-42480052459197524062008-08-21T01:23:00.000-04:002008-08-21T01:23:00.000-04:00I agree. This nonsense of "consciousness is just ...I agree. This nonsense of "consciousness is just an illusion" is beginning to tick me off. Physics has reached a point to where they are making things up again. Here is what I think. Matter is just energy, energy is just light, light is just a wave (disturbance) in space. Space is nothing. So everything is nothing, excepth consciousness. We are in gods simulation. <BR/><BR/>Hope you aren't offended by my quarkyness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-19783243759005281682007-08-25T16:52:00.000-04:002007-08-25T16:52:00.000-04:00I apparently crossed out of that modality in 1972....I apparently crossed out of that modality in 1972.<BR/><BR/>Currently, in post egoic clarity/ethicality taking-over-the-internet.com became a dna imperative lingual infusion experiment to integrate and coordinate the sum of all human intention into a physical immortality-ing event.<BR/><BR/>I have met some resistance.<BR/><BR/>The old paradigm illusionists[most people] unconsciously keep reinforcing the illusion in their pre-conscious psychical politics.... creating an immense amont of psychical inertia to resist the impending harmonic clarvoyancy.<BR/><BR/>This makes the borg (Star Trek) movie somewhat prophetic.Children's Internet Education & Immortality Rightshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548360776628469954noreply@blogger.com