--- rwas rwas <mc68332.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> >
> > Of course we are hard-wired to perceive the
> passage
> > of time,
> > three-dimensional space, and the pleasure of sex.
> > Physics and Darwin
> > provide explanations of this. What's your
> > explanation?...oh, never
> > mind, I know..."It just is."
> >
> > Brent Meeker
I answered some of this in another post....
We perceive 3-space because we have tools to take
data
in it and the ability to relate and associate
observations in this space with other sensory
facilities.
Pleasure is a spiritual sensation. You cannot
describe
it terms of states. Describing it as a feeling that
is
the opposite of pain does not work. All feelings we
have that we say are pleasurable-or-not cannot be
correlated to empirical data taken from stimulating
someone. YOu can only say that certain brain
functions
have certain physical results, and that the person
*says* they feel pleasure. YOu cannot prove that the
consciousness of the person is receiving pleasure as
the direct result of stimulus to "pleasure centers
in
the brain".
As far as time, I described this in a separate post
in
terms of my own theory.
In it I said time is an illusion and we perceive it
because of sampling of descrete events. Our
consciousness is timeless but our thinking in this
consciousness can be organized as a temporal stream.
Each thought being a frame in a sequence. Each frame
is timeless. We say time has transpired because of
the
behavior of external events, the ticking of a
clock's
second hand for example.
If you force the clock to exist over an epoch we
might
see it as a 4 dimensional object. The hands of the
clock would form fluid swirling patterns that extend
over the length of the clock's epoch. Someone trying
to see this clock as moving forward in time would
have
to to take 3dimentional slices of the 4 dimensional
clock along the direction of the 4th dimension to
see
descrete frames projecting the clock's apparent
forward motion in time.
I assert that physical existence tends to express
things in such a way that we perceive time, forming
an
externally driven tendency to form thought this way.
Robert W.
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Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 16:59:48 PST