TIDBIT: AND THAT PESKY CONSCIOUSNESS-BRAIN RELATIONSHIP
August 11, 2016 / /
And while you're pondering the relationship between brain processing power and consciousness, consider this article from Lancet, which seems to challenge the whole materialist basis of the premise:
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Runs with the Holographic Universe theory.
Of course, there is more to it than meets the eye.
Perhaps we are only rippling the surfaces of very, very deep waters
I was recently reading an article about a man missing ~75% or more of his brain, yet he functioned normally. Such a man would seem to validate Dr. Farrell’s hypothesis concerning the non locality of consciousness in some respects. If I can locate the article, I will post the link.
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-medical-mystery-of-a-man-living-with-90-of-his-brain-missing
Looking into this a bit further, it’s the same individual.
This man I think would be classified as a moron or a gama from Brave New World. The perfect servant-slave-worker our worst fears confirmed about our oligarchs views of dream laborers.
I always knew it. I’ve come across other civil servants in the past who were able to function seemingly normally yet without any evidence of a brain at all. And some of them in very senior positions mind you.