[extropy-chat] "Dead Time" of the Brain

[Heartland]

Jeffrey wrote:
Can someone here explain what seems to me to be almost inexplicable? That conscious 
experience exists even in light of the fact that at least 10^29 Planck Intervals 
will elapse between any two neural firings? It seems almost as if cognition 
"reaches back into time" in order to trace the whole pathway of activation.

The thing that exists during that multiple of Planck Interval is the collective and 
directed "momentum" of matter that implements mind. That "momentum" is what makes 
one brain state switch to the next which causes mind to arise. HTH.

S.