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From: pnorton@beaux.atwc.teradyne.com (Peter Norton)
Subject: Re: Consciousness and the Senses/Brain development
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Rainer Kayser <rkayser@hs.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
>sparky@netaxs.com (Tim Sheridan) writes:
>
>>Without the constant stimulation of the outside world, it would be impossible
>>to stay "conscious". Your brain would just settle into a steady-state, and
>>you would not be doing anything that could be remotely classified as
>>"thinking"
>
>How do you know this?  Are there any experiments that support this view?
>
>>we only know we are concious because of our senses.
>
>I do not agree. We do not even know if we really sens anything.

Sigh - Western scientists at play in the fields of the gymnosophists.  
Completely innocent of all the thousands of years of accumulated experience and
experimental technique in this field. How could they not ask such questions?

>We dance round in a ring and suppose. 
>But the Secret sits in the middle 
>and knows.       Robert Frost

Exactly.

So why do you keep dancing?  
Why not sit in the center with the 'secret'?
It really is an 'open secret' after all.

Cheers
