Sep 22, 2013 — CANADA (SUN) — Consider this an open letter to philosophers, brain researchers, physicists, technocrats, Ray Kurzweil, and TED executives who censored lectures on consciousness by Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake.
Conventional science readily admits (insists) that the brain is made of the same particles that constitute everything else in the universe: rocks, chairs, comets, meteors, galaxies. According to conventional physicists, these particles are not conscious.
Therefore, there is no reason to conclude the brain is conscious.
The brain has no more ability to spawn consciousness than a rock does.
End of story. End of proof.
You're welcome.
Of course, a few scientists will argue (and many more will privately believe) that, since we humans ARE conscious, this proves the brain is producing consciousness—because, where else could we look for an explanation?
Which is called circular reasoning. Meaning: you already assume what you're trying to prove. Any first-semester logic student would mark that argument INVALID.
Some scientists, suddenly invoking a brand of mysticism they otherwise deplore, claim the unique complex configuration of particles called the brain somehow—in this one case—has a capacity to break every rule in the book and deliver consciousness.
But no proof, just faith. Supposition.
Finally, you have a sprinkling of renegade physicists who assert that everything in the universe—rocks, chairs, pencils, lamps, trees, stars, galaxies are conscious.
Fine. However, their argument trivializes the brain as the seat of consciousness, because the human arm and leg and thumb and belly button and butt are all conscious, too. In which case, so what?
Bottom line? All conventional scientific arguments for the brain as the "place of consciousness" are futile and absurd. And this leads to something beyond scientific and philosophic materialism.
It leads to non-material consciousness.
The failure of physicists to admit this is just pure stubbornness, avoidance, and rank denial.
Their only refuge is to deny consciousness exists. Instead, all life is merely mechanical. "Consciousness" is a fake delusion/concept contained in faulty programming, and installing better programming will make humans more "realistic."
This is the fall-back position of the technocrats, and it enables them to try any and all transhuman experiments, since humans are just machines. Take out this wire, insert that wire.
This brand of technocrat isn't just a wacko who thinks storing a computer clone of a human brain is storing a human being. No. He's a rabid Dr. Frankenstein.
Jon Rappoport
JonRappoport.wordpress.com
