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I'm wondering why is it that we will do absolutely anything to avoid pondering the hypothesis that the currently observable matter which constitues human body m
by ypcx 13y ago
I'm wondering why is it that we will do absolutely anything to avoid pondering the hypothesis that the currently observable matter which constitues human body may only be a half of the answer, and that the other half may be, what we could approximately call some sort of energetic, perhaps electro-magnetic field, carrying the missing link to many of our puzzles.
How about the cases of patients who lost large portions of their brain, or people who were born with or have developed to most of their brain missing - the rest of their head filled with fluid - these people are usually way more functional than what any of our brain theories would suggest.
So perhaps the brain is only an antenna into this energetic field which is the other half of that what see and can detect and measure.
The question is why does this sound ridiculous to you.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoYou're privileging the hypothesis. Why half of the answer, not 1/3 or 2/3? Why energetic, not dark-matter? Why electro-magnetic? But still, as far as I can tell, the "antenna" hypothesis was considered and rejected, because right now we can pin-point different processes within a brain using fMRIs, we can read out what an animal imagines out of its brain directly... and basically "brain as a computer" is a simpler and better fitting the data model than "brain as an antenna".