My advice to you would be to concentrate on thinking about why you have difficulty recognising the existence of your own brain. — universeness
My advice to you is to inquire into the significance of this piece of meat you obsess about. Notice that it doesn't have as much control as it thinks over basic functions like the circulation of blood, including heart-rate, the digestive system, body temperature, reproductive system, - all the important stuff is controlled elsewhere, leaving the brain to play fingers on keyboards and make funny noises at other brains — unenlightened
You get It! totally! — universeness
I might disagree with what you say but I respect your right to say it, as long as you are not inciting violence. — universeness
I'm somewhat underwhelmed by your generous respect for my right to be wrong. "Don't keep fighting the good fight!" he says, inciting the end to violence — unenlightened
Now who is choosing to use the word 'conflict'(like a boxing match perhaps?).I wonder how we have traveled from agreement to conflict — unenlightened
My reference was not to the Greek alphabet, but to the evolutionary theory of paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Other scientists, such as Frank Tipler, have used the same name for the notion of upward progression of evolution toward some final resolution. I haven't made any detailed study of the process, so my use of the "Omega Point" is pure conjecture.Looks good to me! I like the predicted exponential growth towards the rather more concerning Omega point. Concerning as Omega is the last greek letter in that particular alphabet and usually signifies an ending. — universeness
A brain cannot experience itself — unenlightened
I agree that at any moment it time when I am not concentrating on external sensors. If all my senses were momentarily blocked for example then I could still think and be aware of self and brain etc but I can conceive of your point here that it would be a series of snapshots of the whole and therefore an incomplete view. If that's what you mean?one can only have a partial incomplete view of oneself — unenlightened
if I have a true insight, then I see the whole - all three. But if all three are seen, who is seeing? — unenlightened
. A brain cannot experience itself. — unenlightened
I became 'content' with the conception that I am not able to see the whole of 'me, myself and I' at any instant in time. — universeness
If the rest of me was removed and science could still maintain just my brain and interface with it then "I" may well still 'exist' in a very real way. — universeness
So you are content with I {the seer} see myself {the seeable}, and theorise me {the unseeable} -- or thereabouts? — unenlightened
I don't think this will ever be possible. Only your body fits your brain. You can't take your brain out and place it in a vat, supplying it with information that your body would provide for you normally. The brain and body are unseparable. Even you dreaming can't be accomplished in this way. Separating your brain from the body is just as impossible as separating the world around you from it. The brain, body, and physical world are inseparable — Schootz1
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