From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 13:15:34 MDT
Steve wrote,
>...I am developing a Death Avoidance Scheme based on the
> MVT findings www.multi.co.uk/primal.htm...
> MVT is the all-conquering philosophy because it is true and
> none can refute it.
Well that's certainly a bold claim worthy of investigation. :)
Can you point me to any scientific resources that might support your
ideas about the pineal gland? I recall that the pineal gland is
responsible for the production of melatonin; it acts as a light
receptor, either via the eyes in higher animals or directly in lower
animals in which it is close to the skin. However I wonder about making
any, shall we say, supernatural claims about this organ such as those
associated with "primal eye mythologies." I would like to see any real
links between the science of the pineal gland and the mythologies
associated with it by Descartes and others.
> What you are saying isn't a strictly materialist position.
> Behaviourists deny consciousness, whereas you admit to such a
> phenomena as an "artifact" of other, physical processes.
> So the dichotomy remains!!
I'm not so sure I agree with that. By "artifact" I was not referring to
anything supernatural or dualistic. As an example of an analogous
"artifact," if you use headphones to play a tone into one ear and a tone
one half-step higher into your other ear, you will hear a wavering sine
wave "in your mind" despite the fact that both tones are steady. That
sine wave is an "artifact" of the physical processes occurring in your
brain as it attempts to interpret the tones coming through each ear.
There is nothing dualistic about the phenomenon.
-gts
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