Microcosms (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 20, 2008, 15:07 (5648 days ago) @ dhw

I am the sum of all my parts, but I sense that I am more than that sum, that I have a character that transcends my physical self. 
 
> but it poses the question: are we ourselves microcosms? If so, of what? - Here I am giving a link to a mind/body symposium. I have read several of the participants and they are non-materialistic scientists. Bruce Greyson is a psychiatrist who studies near to death. Newberg scans meditating brains. These folks believe the mind arises from the material brain, and feelings of self as a separate entity are real. Materialist scientists think the self is an illusion. http://www.mindbodysymposium.com/ I do not agree with the materialists. Baby brains are stimulated to grow and develop thru intellectual contact, one mind contacting another developing one. - We are a microcosm of 10 million cells many of which are doing their own thing. We have autonomic and voluntary nervous systems, for example.