Science of Self (Humans)

by David Turell , Thursday, March 13, 2014, 14:12 (3906 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: But since you assume that consciousness, will and self are physical (as stated in your latest post to David), I would like you to explain HOW you think my cells are physically manipulated by the loss of my wife (or indeed by any other experience or outside influence), and HOW you think my cells produced the conflict I have described between the cells I call my reason and the cells I call my emotions, and HOW you think my cells resolved the conflict through the cells I call my will, independently of the cells I call my consciousness.
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> Just to repeat my own view on this: I am not discounting your theory. I simply do not understand how such a process could work, and therefore I make no assumptions and remain open to the (for me) equally inexplicable possibility ... exemplified by NDEs and OBEs and other psychic experiences ... that there may be a form of personalized energy that is not restricted to the cells.-And this is where I step in with my favorite theory about cnsciousness: it may well be 'personalized energy' at a quantum level which each of us carries around without direct recognition. Gives Romansh a starting point for his theory.