XPost: alt.dreams.lucid, bionet.neuroscience, talk.religion.buddhism   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.debate   
   From: zen102422@zen.co.uk   
      
   "alec"  wrote in message   
   news:1181047343.935111.234240@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com...   
   > On May 14, 3:40 am, "buddhapest"  wrote:   
   >> "neo"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:1179066747.379480.163490@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >> > One hundred billion neurons.   
   >>   
   >> did you count them all yourself?   
   >>   
   >> > Each neuron has one to ten thousand   
   >> > synapses.   
   >>   
   >> do they get more if they're   
   >> good little neurons or maybe   
   >> they get less?   
   >>   
   >> > According to permutations   
   >>   
   >> and even moreso according   
   >> to permanent wave   
   >>   
   >> -combinations number of brain   
   >>   
   >> > states exceeds number of elementary particles in the known universe.   
   >>   
   >> you counted those too? you   
   >> must have one whiz bang computer   
   >>   
   >> > That is quite interesting.   
   >>   
   >> leave me a wake up call   
   >>   
   >> > Our brain can create whole universe from   
   >> > these brain states.   
   >>   
   >> is that how all this crap started?   
   >> will somebody please unplug   
   >> whatever brain is responsible?   
   >> thanks !   
   >>   
   >> > Most curious thing is that of 'phantom limb or phantom hand'.   
   >>   
   >> i see those floating in my basement   
   >> all the time. i've trained a few of them   
   >> to do my laundry so it's not all bad.   
   >>   
   >> > Even   
   >> > though the limb is missing, the patient feels vividly that the limb   
   >> > is   
   >> > still attached to body and feel pains in missing limb.   
   >>   
   >> those silly patients anyway.   
   >>   
   >> > What is more   
   >> > curious that the patient also feel 'weight' of missing limb.   
   >>   
   >> i feel the weight of the world on my   
   >> shoulders. is that the same thing?   
   >>   
   >> > Our brain   
   >> > feels 'phantom gravity' acting on 'phantom mass' of missing limb.   
   >>   
   >> "our" ?   
   >>   
   >> > Other curious things are synesthesia, blindsight, motion blind,   
   >> > anosognosia.   
   >>   
   >> shistosomiasis is curious too   
   >> but i wouldn't want a backyard   
   >> full of that either   
   >   
   >  All this talk  about neurons and synapses sounds impressive but for   
   > the lay guy these things are just impressive concepts.  Anyway   
   > according to advaita this whole world is just a creation of our own   
   > minds.  This  ofcourse is  impossible to prove but just as the world   
   > seems real in our dreams so in our waking too it seems real but in   
   > actuality it isn't. I am not saying it is so, but the idea could have   
   > some substance. Anyway whether this is true or not, death is a   
   > certainty and so our lives here are not even a dream. Soon there will   
   > be no proof we even existed.   
   >   alakeshwar   
      
      
   we are not supposed to mentate the world...   
   any idea what that means...?   
      
    the vajrayana ass-holes will tell you, if you're a moron...   
      
   no,,, that's not it...   
      
   ev.... what was it pete always said...?   
      
      
   jan   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)