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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Is CONSCIOUSNESS continuous? discrete? quantized?
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 17:53:18 GMT
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In article <kovskyD4q1z7.DEn@netcom.com>, Bob Kovsky <kovsky@netcom.com> wrote:
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>	There are gradations in the involvement of consciousness in 
>activities, such as whether consciousness is active (as when one is 
>programming) or passive (as when listening to another person); or 
>foreground (programming again) or background (often while driving).  My 
>experience is:  the more consciousness, the more advantage.
>
Obviously wrong! Try to walk with a full consciousness of what all muscles in 
your legs are doing - you will quickly trip over. In fact I am surprised that
you say this, since on other occasions you have made references to meditation
suggesting at least some knowledge of oriental philosophies. In oriental
martial arts it is said that a counterattack should follow an attack the same
way a thunder follows a lightning. Not much consciousnes in the latter case,
is there? And this is a frame of mind a martial artist wants to achieve -
when his/her moves are spontaneous, not conscious. Only then do these moves
have a chance to be optimally efective. This actually applies to any physical
activity - ever tried to dance "consciously"?

>    Bob Kovsky          |  A Natural Science of Freedom 
>    kovsky@netcom.com   |  Materials available by anonymous ftp

Andrzej
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Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
University of Toronto                 not what they think; the wise reject
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pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca                           Huang Po
