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posted by Omnis | April 12, 2009
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IcerocketRecent studies of visual perception have begun to reveal the connection between neuronal activity in the brain and conscious visual experience.
Are we machines? Or are we a holistic apparatus?
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http://www.pnas.org/content/98/22/12340.full
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I don't believe it to be an
— Apr 13, 2009
I don't believe it to be an 'either/or' scenario. We are entities who have machines and computers as a part of our matrix, but you cannot reduce us to simply 'being machines'. That kind of reductive logic is, I believe, a fallacy.
"You must *be* the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
Agreed
— Apr 14, 2009
I'm no atheist, but I've come to see this ever expanding system of information. That, perhaps life, or the cosmos is the advent of ever accumulating and interacting information.
From the bottom up DNA has managed to externalize a system of information and memory by means of creatures who have minds. These creatures (let's call them humans), have now begun to further externalize information and memory through the advent of computers. Even with out computers we as beings still exchange mass amounts of information.
What is the next level of information to be externalized?
It is an interesting
— Apr 14, 2009
It is an interesting question, and no doubt. Have you by chance read Ervin Laszlo's Science and the Akashic Field? It is very much along these lines, and I would love to hear your take on it.
"You must *be* the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
