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So while impulses may rise up from our subconscious, we can override these impulses at the conscious level? Interestingly, I've read that for those highly skilled in certain meditation, they could observe their subconscious activities. For example, they can see themselves falling asleep and...

I can relate to what you are saying Coberst because it seems to me that that was what I was doing since I was eleven when I first read an article on astronomy. I am nearing retirement now and will probably retire later this year. Now, I am finding that there is some limit as to how far one can...

Has this body-mind always been that way, or was there a point in time prior to which it is only body? If yes, what triggered the change from body to body-mind?

Is Lakoff and Johnson saying that all choices are deterministic and therefore freewill is an illusion, and qualias are "flesh-bound"?

I got lost when you suddenly narrow "resonance" to "intellectual"

Hi coberst, This caught my eye: SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive Science) informs us that the “utilitarian person, for whom rationality is economic rationality—the maximization of utility—does not exist. Real human beings are not, for the most part, in conscious control of—or even consciously...

By the way, negative time arrow, is possible within quantum mechanics.

Shawn, This is a better article. Algae Use Quantum Trick To Harvest Light - Science News "These long-lasting quantum effects may help explain the mystery of why the initial electron-moving reactions in photosynthesis are so efficient. In an extreme version of the algae’s quantum-mechanical...

Have you read this article? http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/spooky.htm "..the basic processes of life we take for granted rely on the transfer of information backward in time."

Thanks Mark, for providing the only response so far. Here's what I think: Let's assume that there is a random process that generates various possible configurations of a universe. The more stable configurations will persist while the less stable ones will cease sooner or later. If there is a...

from "Is consciousness connected to the fine structure of the universe?" http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/deepak_chopra/2010/04/is_consciousness_connected_to_the_fine_structure_of_the_universe.html "This month's Discover magazine has a cover story about both of them...

Here's something in similar vein perhaps: http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/deepak_chopra/2010/04/is_consciousness_connected_to_the_fine_structure_of_the_universe.html

In Buddhism, to reach the enlightenment of a Buddha, part of the process requires one to drop all concepts, including dualistic concepts of good and bad, pure and impure, clean and dirty, discipline and indiscipline etc.

In Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, when something is unconditioned, that something would be independent of every other thing. However, if that independent something can interact with other thing, that something cannot be considered as independent anymore since for an interaction to have meaning...

I suggest you check with someone who is familiar with Tibetan Buddhist texts and Tibetan language to see if what I've stated about "sems" and "sems nyid" are correct or not. I am prepared to be corrected if I was wrong.

Bob, I follow Tibetan Buddhism and know a little Tibetan to have some confidence in what I've stated.

Hi Bob, let us just agree to disagree and leave it at that.

Nothing to be sorry about. We all have to find the way that suits us, that's why the Buddha taught different methods and different views as he was well aware of the diversity of his followers.

As I understand it, dependent arising is a cornerstone of Buddhist thought. It means that things in this world exist in dependence on causes and conditions. Importantly, the causes and conditions themselves are also dependently arisen. Things here can refer to "things" that are in your mind and...

True existence = inherent existence = an existence that does not depend on any factor, conditions etc.