Guest guest Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 > And this, of course, includes consciousness, simply because > consciousness is created by living nerve cells. And yet, > awareness (because this two terms are > interchangeable) is conferred a sort of > immortality by its generic nature. > > Consciousness, despite the fact, of being created only by individual > organisms Pete, Are you saying that matter is prior to consciousness? What am I missing? How did you determine consciousness is created by nerve cells? Everything I've read, outside scientific stuff, says that consciousness is prior to matter. " Do understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind. " -SNM What am I missing? Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 In a message dated 3/1/05 7:25:34 AM, shawnregan writes: > Pete, > > Are you saying that matter is prior to consciousness? What am I > missing? How did you determine consciousness is created by nerve > cells? Everything I've read, outside scientific stuff, says that > consciousness is prior to matter. > > " Do understand that what you think to be the world is your own mind. " -SNM > > What am I missing? > > Shawn > Hi Shawn, You are not missing anything. It's the way that people, even masters, use words like consciousness, mind, the Absolute, Self and others. They usually don't bother to clarify if they are using mind as when one says, " Are you out of your mind! " or as 'universal mind' or Absolute, and the same goes for consciousness and self. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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