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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:04 AM Original message |
What part does the brain play in all this? |
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nebenaube (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:08 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's all in your head man! |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. The novelist Tom Robbins felt that "If nothing else, the brain is |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. It is all bio-electricity |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 11:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Does any bioelectrical activity give rise to consciousness? |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Consciousness is bio-electricity in action. n/t |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Is the enteric nervous system conscious? |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Not all bio-electricity is consciousness. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 09:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Asking you what you believe is not the same as asking you to suppose what I believe. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 07:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You are welcome to that belief. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:31 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Considering that I have not elucidated a belief, |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:40 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I'm OK with that. n/t |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:47 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I hit "post" too early by accident. Edit contains full reply. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:59 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. You said: |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Do you? |
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pegleg (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Pretty hard to deny the bio-electric argument because that's what it is. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 12:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I haven't denied anything. |
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pegleg (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 02:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. I think it is safe to say that all PHYSICAL consciousness is bio-electric. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-10-08 12:33 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. As opposed to what? Do you have evidence of non-physical consciousness? |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 03:44 AM Response to Reply #8 |
34. You are what you eat. nt |
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edhopper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. If you are asking |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
5. Well, I'd say there's ample evidence to claim |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
11. It depends on which hemisphere is more "used" |
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moobu2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-11-08 08:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Years ago |
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Azooz (271 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
19. Brain: How To Use It |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-11-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
23. The brain is an organ much like the heart |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
25. Yeah, but look who's telling you that. |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 09:36 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Is that a theory? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 10:09 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. All the main ones seem to be, though. |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 11:53 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Why do you assume "it" is telling you "it" is in charge? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. You must not have seen that Emo Phillips riff. |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Muscle memory? |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 03:25 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Look, I'm no biologist. I only know what I've experienced. |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. It IS in the head |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-12-08 07:24 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. When you sever nerves, though, pain happens. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-13-08 04:05 AM Response to Original message |
35. Play or work? |
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morningglorysunday (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-25-08 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
36. I would first separate the brain from the mind |
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