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From: rr
Sent: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 8:35 pm
Subject: WHAT'S BETWEEN MY EARS?
Don't worry about paying your rent: the liberal/secular media's messiah has arrived. Actually. I wish him the best - he is my president and Bush left him a financial mess. The liberal biased media doesn't want you to know that Billy-boy Clinton made it possible for individuals with little or no credit to get mortgages through Fanny and Freddy! President Bush thought that it was good idea to allow low income people to have the opportunity to own a house until '94 when he realized that the policy Clinton implemented '98 had gone too far. He tried through executive orders in '94 and '95 to rectify the situation to no avail. He directed republican leaders to raise the issue with the chairman of the Senate Banking and Finance Committee, Barney 'is my skirt to short' Frank. He was told that there was a housing problem that could turn into a crisis. He refused to take any action and claimed that the republicans were wrong or exaggerating .It was on his watch and there were no problems. And then came the domino effect: the mortgage domino fell leading to the fall of investment/commercial
bank and wall street dominos. By the way, he. Oboma and other democrats were receiving campaign
contributions - some for many years - from Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac - - - both of which are semi-independent federal agencies. Possible crime here. Do you think that the democrats will investigate their own. It's October now and I'm still waiting, Of course, since then the dems have broken the law including constitutional law many times! They and their liberals cohorts in the mainstream media will continue to blame Bush. You should spend some time thinking about the big, profound, cosmic questions before they place you six feet under. As for the democrats in congress - they were born with strong liberal genes...
The mind-body problem: Sociobiology; Tabular Rosa and Saving Self.
At least, they don't tell me when to speak or go skydiving: Or, will they?!
Physicalists are philosophers who like most computer scientists, evolutionary psychologists and neuro-scientists harbor the view that the mind is physical and that mental states are neurological states or properties. And most of them subscribe to the sociobiology perspective regarding mind: intelligence; consciousness; thought; perception; memory; emotion; will; imagination; unconsciousness; personality; behavior. There's more in your genes then you think! neurons are the brain's nerve cells and cells contain genes. You can be born with a strong homosexual gene and therefore are likely to grow-up to be homos. They can't help being what they are anymore then you can, as a result, their life style should be excepted as normal and condoned by society and recognized by government. (They aren't immoral -Bible; they aren't abnormal - traditional biology). You can be born with a strong criminal gene. Consequently,criminals shouldn't be severely punished, they just couldn't help but shoot that guy. As Ann Courtler points out in her book, The church of liberalism godless": Why is it that liberals say that child molesters shouldn't be imprisoned but should receive psychotherapy
instead. Weren't they born with a strong child molester gene? They can be helped and changed (cured) but homosexuals can't. (I paraphrased somewhat). You can even be born with a strong nasty gene or a strong greedy gene - you got the idea. You programmed like a computer!
Some say that it's part nature(genes) and part nurture (environment). I don't find this argument palatable. 'A' was born with a strong nasty gene and' B' a weak nasty gene. What determines whether or not he will grow up to be nasty? They should just drop nature from the equation.
Their strongest argument: twins separated at birth have a 50% chance to grow up to have a similar personality and background. I don' find their argument compelling.
Bible: man has free will; traditional biology: human's have the most advanced brains and therefore aren't slaves of their biology.
Tabula Rasa. Ibn Sina, Persian philosopher in the 11th century, "human intellect at birth is rather like a tabula rasa (blank slate), a pure potentiality that is actualized through education and that knowledge attained through empirical familiarity with objects in this world from which gains abstract, universal concepts which is developed through reason ; observations lead to propositional statements which when compounded lead to further abstract concepts." The theory - originally proposed by Aristotle - has gone virtually unchanged.
Clearly, psychosis are the result of genes or structural brain structure damage. The meaning of facial expressions made by infants are universal. I doubt neuroses is like psychosis.
Saving Self: at this juncture, we can all agree that genes determine hair texture, eye color, eventual height (generally speaking due environmental factors such as availability of food),
congenital and hereditary disease, etc. There can be environmental constraints on realization. Genes might indicate that an individual will be tall and muscular due to lack of food or sanitary conditions or other factors in which the individual inhabits this might not come to pass,
Supporters of dualism maintain that mental phenomena are in some respects non-physical. They hold the view that phenomena may be perceived through a person's senses or with the mind and the mind doesn't exist in nonliving things. Mind is subjective and isn't spatial (height, length, width) like brain or brick. Some dualist go so far as to suggest that mind and brain are properties of an unknown substance.
Let's put all are cards on the table...The average man is much taller and stronger then the average woman; male ad female chromosomal differences; women tend to be left-hemisphered (cerebral cortex) while Rick prefers the right (in more ways then one).
Let's make some assumptions: intellect and reason (the higher functions partially genetic-jury still out). John Pokinhor, physicist and priest, (how's that for a combo!) states, "reductionist - replicating, information processing, and
existing is all that they think that we do." By the way, computers function quickly and sequentially while We take in data through our senses and neurons light up as a result of the input while other neurons light up to generate a response.We think more slowly and somewhat in parallel fashion:
neuron-synapse-neuron A to B is lit while D to E isn't then A and D and then ABD are lit and then joined by A andD while ABD turn off. Computer and Brain produce answers. You can program computer to translate Chinese to English but it doesn't understand either language.Memories are held in neurons and neural connections. Our mind can light up neurons in dreaming, day-dreaming and when engaging in abstract thought without sensory input. matter and energy are two forms of the same thing as are particles and waves.
You see the sky and the pond floor when you look into a pond. Some photons of light bounce off of the water a strike your eyes while others bounce off of the pond floor. Quantum physics isn't deterministic. It can only talk in terms of probabilities. The probability of weather a particular photon will bounce off the water or floor. Is the photon thinking? no, energy can't think.
What is mind? A phenomenon that accompanies another phenomenon is usually parallel to it and is related in some way to it - precise electric correlates of conscious things in the human brain. Option one: mind and brain are different forms of the same thing; option two: mind fills out, completes, compliments brain; mind is made up of a mysterious unknown substance.
I'm going with option one: the abstract, imaginations dreams, will and emotions complete brain. It isn't genetic. Husband and wife complete each other; wave and particle complete each other; matter and energy complete each other. There different manifestations of the same thing and interact with each other. A the becomes a neuron-synapse-neuron connection
I was born with a strong conservative gene. Issue two: the science-politics problem. Was this a political or
science article? With a nod toward Mozart, Einstein and Edison...
My A.D.D. Self,
Rick
What is mind? A phenomenon that accompanies another phenomenon is usually parallel to it and is related in some way to it - precise electric correlates of conscious things in the human brain. Option one: mind and brain are different forms of the same thing; option two: mind fills out, completes, compliments brain; mind is made up of a mysterious unknown substance.
I'm going with option one: the abstract, imaginations dreams, will and emotions complete brain. It isn't genetic. Husband and wife complete each other; wave and particle complete each other; matter and energy complete each other. There different manifestations of the same thing and interact with each other. A the becomes a neuron-synapse-neuron connection
I was born with a strong conservative gene. Issue two: the science-politics problem. Was this a political or
science article? With a nod toward Mozart, Einstein and Edison...
My A.D.D. Self,
Rick
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