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Rogodin2

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Bedlam, Broke, or Benevolent?

Rogo

A perfect question for the evening and the rest of the weekend. Thank god for Michael's and the 3rd tier! I love the bass clarinet!

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If individual brain cells are each additively responsible for our consciousness, yet each one is not aware of the higher consciousness of the whole brain, perhaps then the whole planet has a higher level of consciousness of which the individual organisms within are not aware?
 
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Originally posted by: NanoStuff
If individual brain cells are each additively responsible for our consciousness, yet each one is not aware of the higher consciousness of the whole brain, perhaps then the whole planet has a higher level of consciousness of which the individual organisms within are not aware?
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Except the cells are directly interconnected, transmit electrical impulses, and the earth would have to be able to act were 'consciousness' to mean anything.

Simply put, that's ridiculous.

You could make a fairly weak argument that the earth is 'alive' in some small sense, but not that it's conscious.
 
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Originally posted by: NanoStuff
If individual brain cells are each additively responsible for our consciousness, yet each one is not aware of the higher consciousness of the whole brain, perhaps then the whole planet has a higher level of consciousness of which the individual organisms within are not aware?
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Atman is Brahman.
 
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Rogodin2

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I'm waiting for Tohen to flow-that's why music seems to be the beauty.

I've also sensed it in the wind of a wheat field as I harvested it (red wheat just so you all have bread, bagels, and crummpets.

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NanoStuff

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Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: NanoStuff
If individual brain cells are each additively responsible for our consciousness, yet each one is not aware of the higher consciousness of the whole brain, perhaps then the whole planet has a higher level of consciousness of which the individual organisms within are not aware?
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Except the cells are directly interconnected, transmit electrical impulses, and the earth would have to be able to act were 'consciousness' to mean anything.
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1. Internet/Phone, etc.
2. Wires
3. The problem is you're trying to define 'acting' conscious when the two are entirely irrelevant. One does not need to act or even display any signs of life to be conscious.
 
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Rogodin2

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To be conscious is to be sapient-to be sapient means that an organism (debatable with an object that is based on binary) is able to act with judgment. A specific attribute of the psyche is that of being able to decide what is 'wise'. Wisdom is being able to taste life.

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2
To be conscious is to be sapient-to be sapient means that an organism is able to act with judgment.
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You might want to update your definition of consciousness and go from there :)
 
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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Rogodin2
You don't love pie.

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This is not debatable. I love pie.
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But what is pie but a sensory reaction in our brains? Is pie real? Or does our brain just tell us it is, with warm sensations of sweet blackberry on our tongue and the cold creamy feeling of icecream that follows?
 
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i surf atot, therefore i am

wtf are you talking about Bedlam, Broke, or Benevolent?
 
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