Alternative Nation
Go Back   Alternative Nation

Notices

View Single Post
Old 13th August 2005, 12:26pm   #25
LesMTS
Fattly Drawn Boy
SuperMod
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dundee
Posts: 16,340
Blog Entries: 1
LesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth itLesMTS wonders if it was all worth it
Send a message via MSN to LesMTS
Re: With all the erudition of a drunken 15 year old......

Consciousness/'The Mind' is located in the cerebral cortex, I'll even reference that for you - Thompson, R F. (1985) The Brain. An Introduction to Neuroscience, Page 22

"There are frequencies of colour that we cannot see, sound we cannot here etc."
This is true, but it's not as mystical as you are making out. Colour is just electromagnetic radiation within the range of wavelengths which make up the visible spectrum. Different colours are different wavelengths, frequency is irrelevant as it depends on the speed the waves are travelling and all light moves at a constant speed. Visible colour is essentially the same thing as microwaves, x-rays, infra-red waves, radio waves, ultra-violet radiation etc the only difference is the wavelength.
There are frequencies of sound we cannot hear simply because the soundwaves don't carry enough energy to effectively affect the tiny hairs in our cochleas which tranform motion into electrical impulses in your nerves.

Also, you are right that all matter vibrates but this has absolutely NOTHING to do with colour. Colour, as I said, is electromagnetic radiation NOT matter.

Conciousness is a neurological quirk and does not operate using 'frequencies' in any way that is meaningful to the debate.

What happens to the consciousness of an Alzheimer's patient? Or someone with the very peculiar Capgras' syndrome? These are neurological pathologies which affect consciousness in very strange ways due to identifiable, specific damage to neurons, if consciousness was some kind of amorphous, abstract entity, some kind of vibrating, free-form, nebulous, independent agent then how do these conditions interact with it in a meaningful, predictable and terrible way?
LesMTS is offline   Reply With Quote
 







Powered by vBadvanced CMPS v3.0.0


All times are GMT +0. The time now is 4:38am.

Forums Directory
Copyright 2000-2008, Alternative Nation
Page generated in 0.22783 seconds with 11 queries