Comment Re:intangibles and junk science (Score 1) 161
I remember reading somewhere, in between flipping pages about nano-machines, that if we disregard transcendence (i.e. the existence of a soul separate from the body) and posit that the mind is contained in the brain -- then by definition the mind cannot completely understand how the brain works. To clarify -- if the brain and mind are indeed one, then the mind/brain cannot completely know itself. I can't for the life of me find the book I read this in, so for all I know it could be a meme.
I can't claim to have read Blackmore's book, but I did take a look at The Dancing Wu-Li Masters and I suspect her work is in a similar vein (based on what I've gathered from this discussion). This is stuff graduate students talk about when they're stoned (at least those I know), it's rather amusing to see it published.
I can't claim to have read Blackmore's book, but I did take a look at The Dancing Wu-Li Masters and I suspect her work is in a similar vein (based on what I've gathered from this discussion). This is stuff graduate students talk about when they're stoned (at least those I know), it's rather amusing to see it published.
