The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Thursday, October 21, 2010, 14:01 (4908 days ago) @ BBella

I had commented on the complexity of BBella's levels of consciousness, but she found her own statement confusing and has rewritten it: "I do try and not focus too long on any (other person's) supposed explanation of what I am observing."-Ah! In your original post, I misunderstood the provenance of the explanation, and thought you were switching off your OWN explanatory processes. It is, of course, far easier to switch off those of other people ... politicians, for instance, do it all the time!-The rest of your post is clear enough to me, but slightly misses the point that I was trying to make at the end, because your experiences had shifted my own line of inquiry. You compare the process of focusing to using a camera, but "this is only my focus, it's not me." You later say: "there are no levels. There is only me and my comfortable place of observation." The great question is: WHAT IS "ME"? Materialists will tell you that all your mental activities are caused by electrical impulses in the brain. If we follow your simple camera analogy, the camera is part of your brain, so what is the "ME" that focuses the camera? What is the "ME" that decides to focus the camera, and then decides to focus elsewhere? I'm asking what "ME" is made of. Does your brain tell "you" what to do, or do "you" tell your brain what to do? Consciousness itself is a complete mystery, but there is also a "ME" that directs consciousness, and we have no idea what it is, or how it works. That was what I meant when I asked: "what is it that exercises all those different levels of control?" And as David has explained, I promised you a Nobel Prize (in Stockholm) if you could come up with the answer!


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