(Balance!) Consciousness, identity, OBEs... (Identity)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 08, 2011, 15:21 (5605 days ago) @ romansh

I think I have a good sense of what you and Matt are suggesting from the free will thread a way back. But my queston is: are any of our conscious thoughts not a result of an incredibly complex cascade of 'reflex' chemical reactions, difusion of ions, discharges of electrons etc? > > >>So are you suggesting that for consciousness there is a critical complexity below which consciousness cannot exist. > > You did not answer my question David.-Sorry. Yes the brain does exactly that, but how that brain cascade translates into conscious thinking as some type of emergent event, which is really a bunch of words saying nothing, really means we don't know. And it does seem to require a critical level of complexity to make consciousness, and just not being conscious.-It is because of that jump, that we are different in kind, not degree from other primates.