Just a quick, apropos plug — one of my websites, actually — http://newparadigminsight.wordpress.com … The second essay (The Process of Consciousness) is laid bare for your curiosity to explore, MLuster.
It seems sensible to me to view the brain and mind as one and the same — the matter and energy composing the brain are all interconnected, and the electricity of consciousness is inseparable from the rest of the matter. But the actual phenomenon of consciousness, while seemingly supported by the entire essential makeup of the brain, may simply be a bizarrely complex field of electrical fluidity, useful to conceive of as a separate phenomenon.
To clarify my views regarding your views: my view is an open-minded one. Obviously SOMETHING is at play to manifest as the self-evident phenomenon of consciousness. Personally, I am torn between: (1) The mind is an electrical field supported by the physical brain, or (2) I am in some advanced life simulation, the nature of which I am relatively clueless about. As for “mental illness”, I think we’re on the same page. We process and adapt to our experience of life, which educates us imperfectly to deal with further life. With regard for your last point, I have concluded that my condition has enabled the breakthroughs which have proven necessary for my subsequent successes.
As the brain was discovered to be the likely seat of consciousness, a certain implication was born – its structures and processes as the cause of human function and dysfunction. Life’s digested experiences got demoted in our sense of causality as a result.
This is the best article I’ve found on the Rx Drug/Violence connection. Changed my life.
As an untrained agnostic who fumbles around for better ways to express the nuance that I notice in life, I found your (and Wallace’s) handling of the issue of certainty (and other subjects, really) to be refreshing and insightful. Thanks for the evolution, Vanessa.
Oh. A brief essay (“An Open Mind”) that I wrote to introduce some of my essays may be found right there on my home page: http://newparadigminsight.wordpress.com
Steven, you’re an inspiration. It’s reassuring to me as one who hopes to one day wean off of medication (I have a forced medication order right now), to see a person who made it happen – with an exploration of avenues to wellness and a personal intuition that open dialogue’s rich exchange is really where it’s at, at least for a person such as yourself… I feel in consonance with you on that point… that the mutual validation of our respective digestions of life experience is how we heal and how we SUSTAIN the health of our souls moving forward.
Just a quick, apropos plug — one of my websites, actually — http://newparadigminsight.wordpress.com … The second essay (The Process of Consciousness) is laid bare for your curiosity to explore, MLuster.
It seems sensible to me to view the brain and mind as one and the same — the matter and energy composing the brain are all interconnected, and the electricity of consciousness is inseparable from the rest of the matter. But the actual phenomenon of consciousness, while seemingly supported by the entire essential makeup of the brain, may simply be a bizarrely complex field of electrical fluidity, useful to conceive of as a separate phenomenon.
To clarify my views regarding your views: my view is an open-minded one. Obviously SOMETHING is at play to manifest as the self-evident phenomenon of consciousness. Personally, I am torn between: (1) The mind is an electrical field supported by the physical brain, or (2) I am in some advanced life simulation, the nature of which I am relatively clueless about. As for “mental illness”, I think we’re on the same page. We process and adapt to our experience of life, which educates us imperfectly to deal with further life. With regard for your last point, I have concluded that my condition has enabled the breakthroughs which have proven necessary for my subsequent successes.
As the brain was discovered to be the likely seat of consciousness, a certain implication was born – its structures and processes as the cause of human function and dysfunction. Life’s digested experiences got demoted in our sense of causality as a result.
This is the best article I’ve found on the Rx Drug/Violence connection. Changed my life.
http://duluthreader.com/articles/2012/04/05/299_many_psychoactive_drugs_are_strongly_associated
As an untrained agnostic who fumbles around for better ways to express the nuance that I notice in life, I found your (and Wallace’s) handling of the issue of certainty (and other subjects, really) to be refreshing and insightful. Thanks for the evolution, Vanessa.
Oh. A brief essay (“An Open Mind”) that I wrote to introduce some of my essays may be found right there on my home page: http://newparadigminsight.wordpress.com
Steven, you’re an inspiration. It’s reassuring to me as one who hopes to one day wean off of medication (I have a forced medication order right now), to see a person who made it happen – with an exploration of avenues to wellness and a personal intuition that open dialogue’s rich exchange is really where it’s at, at least for a person such as yourself… I feel in consonance with you on that point… that the mutual validation of our respective digestions of life experience is how we heal and how we SUSTAIN the health of our souls moving forward.