I'm calling this post “3b” because it is more of a continuing thought that relates to the video and, in particular, the claim made by Dr. Anil Seth that there is no light or sound inside the brain. It didn't seem right and I found that following this intuition led me to a way to… Continue reading The Ghost in the Machine pt. 3b
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The Ghost in the Machine pt. 3
Now it is time to make some positive points about somatics as I understand it and have experienced it. The hinge, the golden key, the lynch pin of it all is the intersection between the application of internal perception and our representations of the experience. In the video Seth mainly talks about the external “thing”… Continue reading The Ghost in the Machine pt. 3
The Ghost in the Machine pt. 1
Scattered over my life have been times when the so called "mind/body problem" was an issue. In general I have treated this as a deep and overarching puzzle that impacted how I understood things. High School was probably the earliest I began to actively wonder about the contents of my mind in a self-conscious and… Continue reading The Ghost in the Machine pt. 1