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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: LLCF who wrote (24004)	6/18/2006 4:04:13 AM
From: LLCF	of 28931

<<So there may very well be a "spirit" or "mind" as well as just physicality to our being.>> Hoffman assumes that the correlations observed between brain function and consciousness arise because CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES BRAIN ACTIVITY, not the other way around: cogsci.uci.edu And as Abner Shimony pointed out long ago in the dialogues with R. Penrose: "There are many phenomena that have a quantum flavor about them: transitions from peripheral to focal vision; transitions from consciouness to unconsciousness; the pervasiveness of the mind through the body; intentionality; anomalies in temporally locating mental events; conflations and ambiguities of Freudian symbolism........... several important books on the relationship between quantum theory and mind have examinesd mental phenomena, notably Lockwood and Stapp, and Roger (Penrose) himself discusses some of these..."" DAK

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