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Author Topic:   Proofs of Evolution: A Mediocre Debate (Faith, robinrohan and their invitees)
sidelined
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Message 210 of 295 (279197)
01-15-2006 5:24 PM
Reply to: Message 209 by Faith
01-15-2006 4:57 PM


Re: Augustine and Parasomnium
Faith
I agree that our awareness of our minds is a clue to there being a reality beyond the physical that materialists insist is all there is, and I've appreciated your feeling that physicality couldn't possibly produce mind, but I'm not sure I'd say that mind is "supernatural
There is a physical explanation for the "feeling of incorporeality" and readily explains the illusion.
The brain does not have a nervous feedback system in the way that the body does. We feel a corporeal body due simply to the nervous system.
Since the brain has no awareness of itself produced by nervous action to convey a sense of physicality the brain thus interprets the mind as being seperate. Hence we have the illusion of a seperation between mind and body.
This also readily explains why the mind is overtly influenced by physical actions upon the brain.
This message has been edited by sidelined, Sun, 2006-01-15 03:29 PM

But I realize now that these people were not in science; they didn’t understand it. They didn’t understand technology; they didn’t understand their time.

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