Comments on: My brain… It’s full of stars http://forgetomori.com/2008/science/my-brain-its-full-of-stars/ Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt http://forgetomori.com/2008/science/my-brain-its-full-of-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-4780 Matt Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:45:17 +0000 http://forgetomori.com/2008/science/my-brain-its-full-of-stars/#comment-4780 I think you missed the whole point by citing the dazzling complexity and beauty of what our brain creates even by "mistake," and smugly intoning it as proof of no god or spiritual plane. I can imagine someone with the precise opposite view using the same reasoning to point to an existence of God. You are also disregarding what millions of years of "simple planar disturbances" achieved or might say purposefully evolved; a functioning visual cortex let alone the countless other masterpieces of design that compose the human body - they all had to spring from somewhere. Furthermore putting an image of what is already a simulation of something no human can experience except through their own eyes (more specifically mind) next to a drawing which is another abstract representation of a highly individualized experience is a weak appeal to aesthetics. In other words don't try to peddle subjectivity as objectivity, even with sardonic disclaimers. You have a chicken/egg paradox on your hands: "The human brain creates all spiritual phenomena" "The human brain is a spiritual phenomena" I can't fault your reasoning, nor your logic, nor analytical thinking. They are flawless when held up against the light of science. I can only tell you as the light illuminates what is within its reach, it equally so darkens what falls out of its glow. Determinism, reductionism, and quantification may yield brilliant knowledge but they risk blotting out the stars at night...or blotting out all life altogether, as their judicious overuse in every aspect of our personal and collective lives is currently demonstrating. We have an addiction to control. Human emotions aren't to be trusted. Our senses decieve us. Cogito is superior to body. Only science can winnow truth from lie. Sound familiar? Once you venture beyond the veil of objectivity and recognize the unique character that affects everything you focus your intent upon, you will find your scientific endeavors will reward you in unimaginable ways. The Ascent of Humanity most compellingly appeals to any intelligent person who is hoping to better them self and by extension of which this world. And best of all anyone of any spirituality can read and appreciate it, for free online if you so choose. It changed my definition of self; and thus all my relationships with the world. I think you missed the whole point by citing the dazzling complexity and beauty of what our brain creates even by “mistake,” and smugly intoning it as proof of no god or spiritual plane. I can imagine someone with the precise opposite view using the same reasoning to point to an existence of God. You are also disregarding what millions of years of “simple planar disturbances” achieved or might say purposefully evolved; a functioning visual cortex let alone the countless other masterpieces of design that compose the human body – they all had to spring from somewhere.

Furthermore putting an image of what is already a simulation of something no human can experience except through their own eyes (more specifically mind) next to a drawing which is another abstract representation of a highly individualized experience is a weak appeal to aesthetics. In other words don’t try to peddle subjectivity as objectivity, even with sardonic disclaimers.

You have a chicken/egg paradox on your hands:

“The human brain creates all spiritual phenomena”

“The human brain is a spiritual phenomena”

I can’t fault your reasoning, nor your logic, nor analytical thinking. They are flawless when held up against the light of science. I can only tell you as the light illuminates what is within its reach, it equally so darkens what falls out of its glow. Determinism, reductionism, and quantification may yield brilliant knowledge but they risk blotting out the stars at night…or blotting out all life altogether, as their judicious overuse in every aspect of our personal and collective lives is currently demonstrating. We have an addiction to control.

Human emotions aren’t to be trusted. Our senses decieve us. Cogito is superior to body. Only science can winnow truth from lie. Sound familiar?

Once you venture beyond the veil of objectivity and recognize the unique character that affects everything you focus your intent upon, you will find your scientific endeavors will reward you in unimaginable ways.

The Ascent of Humanity most compellingly appeals to any intelligent person who is hoping to better them self and by extension of which this world. And best of all anyone of any spirituality can read and appreciate it, for free online if you so choose.

It changed my definition of self; and thus all my relationships with the world.

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