[extropy-chat] Physchogenic Fields (was Role of MWI and Time Travel)

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 30, 2006, at 12:01 PM, The Avantguardian wrote:

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> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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>> That phrase is already in use in many ways, some of
>> them rather woo-
>> woo.
>
> I get less than a dozen hits for the term 'psychogenic
> field' on google but one of them is for a biofeedback
> company called Eterna.
>
>>  It is not a "field giving rise to
>> consciousness..".
>> Consciousness, etc. arise from information
>> processing of the brain.
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> That is one hypothesis but it is by no means proven.

Actually, it the proof from various physical disorders and injuries  
to the brain and their effect on consciousness as well as quite a bit  
of research results monitoring healthy brains during many tasks  
associated with "consciousness" are pretty compelling.  Where is the  
evidence that consciousness is somehow separate from or divorced from  
the brain?

> Everything in the universe processes information to
> some degree or another.

That is rather pointless and trite.  The seat of consciousness is the  
brain in human beings.  Do you deny this?  If so, on what basis?


> Why then would the brain be
> conscious and everything else not?

Did I say this?

> Every particle-wave
> in existense is constantly updating its quantum state
> based on information from every other particle-wave in
> its light cone.

Baloney.

> Why are not all the atoms in the
> universe conscious?

Why not go hold a conversation with a rock and ask it?

- samantha