Well the conventional science seems to be getting near the “event horizon” at last, going by the reports from a recent conferenceToward a Science of Consciousness (TUCSON 2008). One of the participants in the conference has cited a report in the WIRED.com on some researches which makes it possible for you to see decisions even before they are made inside your brain. Brain scans are used for it. The full report is at this link:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/mind_decision
This is not news to those who are being “investigated” in this manner for some considerable time now. At least the possibility of such things is being considered now. The students of the science of consciousness are very enthusiastic about these developments, for they believe that this is going to open up a new vista of knowledge. That is true also but only if the technology is used entirely to benefit man. But we live in a world Einstein had to advice the building of Atom bomb in case the Nazis built it first and used it on others. Being politically active Einstein understood the problem with evil and was practical enough to come out with suggestions to counter something in the offing. Though his belief turned out to be wrong and the Americans used the bomb on an unsuspecting people later. But this is the reality we are living at present. Every invention could be turned on the people to subjugate, terrify and colonize them internally. These enthusiasts of the new developments do not yet see the other side of the coin, that the same wonderful machinery could be used for the purposes of torture and monitoring. Any way that is an ongoing battle and we may have to stick with it till this guy’s see the light of day themselves.
Now about another thing altogether different.
An interesting development in the Science of consciousness is the renewed interest in the theory of Panpsychism. It now visualizes consciousness as the part of a Psi field that is said to be exist every where. To the materialists it sort of gives a chance to guess how consciousness evolved out of matter. Panpsychism is nothing new and goes back to the beginning of the history of human thought itself. Animism may be said to be closely related to panpsychism. It was a heatedly debated subject in the nineteenth century but took a back seat with the advance of modern science. Mind was one of the debating points. Some panpsychists believed that everything in the universe is conscious, but the modern materialistic view is in favor of an emerging form of consciousness, that is the consciousness emerges under certain circumstances and is not widely spread to include the whole universe.
There could be any number of versions of panpsychism. There are religious panpsychism as well. Mostly it leans towards idealistic concepts. But with the recent impasse of physics once into the domain of the sub atomic level where we had to desert the “normal” as was considered up to then and had to espouse uncertainty as a principle, with fields capable of producing matter out of nowhere etc the revival of panpsychism is not very surprising. Also the ‘presence’ of something in the universe could be considered as the proof of being aware of its existence in one sense.
Well the subject is well documented on the internet and you can drive right in into it if you want by typing panpsychism in to your search engine. It is supposed to be the “norm” now.
Read up on the subject by all means.
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