Saturday, September 17, 2011

Peoples idea that, the mind is within the brain skull is a fallacy.



Peoples idea that, the mind is within the brain skull is a fallacy. No one has measured the mind. Therefore no one knows whether it is confined to the brain skull.  One can see both a mustered seed and a mountain range within his own mind and hence it is as small as the mustered seed or as vast   as the mountain ranges. 

There is no evidence to prove a causal relation. Therefore it is not possible to prove God created / caused the world.  Moreover sorrow and misery in the world is hardly compatible with the idea of a beneficent creator. The wise course is to suspend judgment and not to admit or deny creation. 

Scientific invention :-

Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
by :
Alva Noƫ. Hill and Wang, 2009
 Alva No, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us but something we achieve it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body and world.

"You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."