Recently I read an interview with Brian Swimme, a mathematical cosmologist in which he mocked the "mechanistic model of the 19th century". I question such mockery.
To call phenomena so reliably associated in sequential time that there are no known, verifiable exceptions anything but cause and effect is to pervert conventional rules of naming.
An explicit inclusive description of man would include the nerves, their form, chemistry, activity. It would include their exquisite and elegant intricacy, and an organization so marvelous as to appear miraculous.
But it is at this level of understanding that the term “miraculous” is shown to be less accurate than “mechanical”! Given its properties,the neuron must do what it does. Even self awareness is actually the subjective awareness of neuronal activity. Awareness may occur without consciousness of the self/ego/soul/identity, but neither occurs without that "mechanical" neural activity, ergo mechanics, not miracles.
2007-11-25
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