Guest guest Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hi Patricia, I can't remember that I wrote such a thing. Maybe it was the following text I wrote in a reply to Marc ?: ------ There are cases of people whose complete visual functions are ok but these people nevertheless are blind. They are blind because the conncection between that part of the brain which is processing visual data and the visual part of the frontal lobe is demaged. The processed data cannot get conscious and so the result is blindness. The interesting thing now is that these people can walk in a room without bumnping against furniture or at any objects there. If one hits with one's fist towards their face they quickly will bend their head aside and when asked why they did that they don't know, they just felt to act that way. Which means, these people do see but they cannot communicate what they see because that consciousness for vision is dead. But their body reacts in a normal autonomous way as if seeing. Then what for does one need consciousness ? The answer is simple, consciousness is only needed for communcation. Consciousness is a social function. All those wonderful godly, holy and great spiritual ideas about consciousness are just fancy romantic illusions. We are social beings, the larger part of our brain just exists for social reasons. Consciousness is one's subjective personal view of the world and this world human beings are exchanging and communicating amomg themselves. ------- Werner Nisargadatta , OConnor Patricia <gdtige wrote: > > I think Werner wrote that one a couple of days ago, > and I can`t find it but really enjoyed it and would > like to ponder over it again. > It was about awereness and how consciousness, being > the will of experiencing, is its product... > Does that ring a bell? > Can it be sent back to me? > Many thanks.. > Patricia > > > > > > > > ____________________ _____ > Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. > Téléchargez sur http://fr.messenger. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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