Well anyway, this book was written and various people commented to me and they said perhaps I could use this book for a course Physics for Poets or whatever it is if it didn't have all that contentious stuff about the mind in that. There's something else going on and the question of what this something else was would depend on some detailed physics and so I needed chapters in that book, which describes the physics as it is understood today. Ĭontexto: Some years ago, I wrote a book called The Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. Interview in "Secrets of the Old One" in Berkeley Groks (16 March 2005). What happens to each of our streams of consciousness after we die where was it before we were born might we become, or have been, someone else why do we perceive at all why are we here why is there a universe here at all in which we can actually be? These are puzzles that tend to come with the awakenings of awareness in any one of us - and, no doubt, with the awakening of self-awareness, within whichever creature or other entity it first came. Children are not afraid to pose basic questions that may embarrass us, as adults, to ask. We often forget the wonder that we felt as children when the cares of the "real world" have begun to settle on our shoulders.
Children sometimes see things clearly that are obscured in later life. This is the kind of obviousness that a child can see-though the child may, later in life, become browbeaten into believing that the obvious problems are "non-problems", to be argued into nonexistence by careful reasoning and clever choices of definition. 580 in 1999 edition).Ĭontexto: Beneath all this technicality is the feeling that it is indeed "obvious" that the conscious mind cannot work like a computer, even though much of what is involved in mental activity might do so. 10, Where Lies the Physics of the Mind?, p. Fonte: The Emperor's New Mind (1989), Ch.
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