Re: The Emptiness of Theology

From: Branimir Maksimovic (bmaxa_at_volomp.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: 15 Aug 2004 23:43:54 -0700

"Robert J. Kolker" <robert_kolker@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1KLTc.261481$%_6.122349@attbi_s01>...
> Branimir Maksimovic wrote:
> > Well, Albert, I couldn't agree more with you. Brain science today
> > really looks like astrology, because it tries to "make testable
> > quantitative predictions", then tries to "check that via experiment
> > and observation".
>
> That is precisely why modern neurophysiology is NOT like astrology.
> Astrology is based on nonsense and makes no testable definite
> predictions. It is also based on the Babylonian ephemeris which is
> completely inaccurate.
>
> Modern neurophysiologoy is a science and astrology is not.

I wasn't completley precise. What is field of study of neurophysiology?

>
> As to how the mind works, one must first say what a mind is. Tell us,
> sport, where is your human mind located in the spacetime manifold. You
> do not have to be precise. Just give us a rough idea.

Ok. I'll try. Human mind is a constant process that mostly happens within
framework of our bodies. It is not organ, nor has any specific location.
I think that mind is beautifull product of extremley complex processes
that happens within our body. Mind is so complex that
it can willingly escape any scientific prediction about it.

>
> Is your mind in your head?

Intuitevelly one experiences intellect to be centered in head(brain)
and fillings in chest.

> Is it in your spleen? Is it in your body?

Not really.

> What relation does this wonderful entity mind, have to your brain which
> can be seen (by various scans) and whose activity can actually be
> measured.

Our minds communicate via computers. We can write what we thought and
feel. If such data exists only within brain, there must be
way to reconstruct and write *exact* thought and filling.
So far, no such thing is reconstructed by scanning and recording brain
activity.

 Where does your mind go when you die. Your brain rots. Does
> your mind rot or does it float up to heaven to be with God?

I think that there is no God beyond our mind, nor there is mind
without body.

Greetings, Bane.

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