From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 12:34:40 MST
RE: http://Ian.Goddard.net/paranorm.htm
It's been suggested in a few replies that
the proposition that your perceived body is
a simulation inside your brain of your real
body is loco. The idea is hard to conceive,
however, this question leads to the logical:
"What datum that you perceive is outside your brain?"
Answer: No data that you perceive is outside
your brain. A real world is outside your brain,
therefore you do not perceive that real world,
you only perceive data that's entered your skull
carrying information about the real world outside.
You perceive your hand, and since all you perceive
is data in your brain, the hand that you perceive
is in your brain. If there's any doubt about your
perceived body being a simulation in your brain,
here's part of its physical architecture (from
the textbook Clinical Neuroanatomy For Medical
Students, Richard Snell, MD, PhD; Little, Brown
& Co., p. 299): http://Ian.Goddard.net/brain.gif
What you perceive to be your face, hands, legs
and feet are a product of neuronal activity in
the brain based upon data collected via your
real body that was sent to your brain for
processing into your perceived body.
Key points to be raised for critics are these:
All things you perceive are data in your brain.
If not, then identify any information that you
perceive that's not information in your brain.
Even a nerve signal traveling from your hand
isn't perceived until it's entered your skull,
and when perceived, the feeling appears to be
out at your hand but is actually located in
your brain (http://Ian.Goddard.net/brain.gif).
If all perceived information is in the brain,
then all you perceive is in your brain, serving
as a model of the real world outside your brain,
including your perceived body outside your skull.
This perceptual thesis explains major paranormal
experiences: http://Ian.Goddard.net/paranorm.htm
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