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4/11/10

Down The Rabbit Hole: Self-Transcendence, Brain Cancer, NDEs, & Consciousness

Raise the index finger on your right hand. There, that was easy, wasn't it? You just told the finger to lift and it did. Now I have something not so easy, a question. How did the finger get raised? You did it, you tell me. Sorry, but that's not good enough.

3/1/10

Andy Clark & Extended Mind



Some of his points:
  • As our use of technology increases, we are hard put to say the world stops there and the person begins here.
  • Chaos Theory and Avalanches: Your Brain Is Like A Pile of Sand

    So you think your thoughts, you say? Well, if you do, what will you think thirty seconds from now? One minute from now? One hour? Where is this thinker you claim yourself to be?