Re: Neurology Conflicts with Atman?
Dear Friends,
There is a purely logical flaw in concluding Awareness Changes .
Suppose Awareness ... a change is always w.r.t a changeless presence [relativity of motion]. So what is that changeless presence ?
Neurology studies brain, and maps it to mind [qualia]
certain neurons fire and i see color. The first part is brain, second part is mind.
so when i say awareness changes ... what they are actually observing is that some neuron's fire and when those neuron's fire one is "conscious" ... observationally.
so we need not even consider neuron firing...
For example suppose i say : in deep sleep there is no awareness... how have i come to this conclusion ? Its purely mental conclusion... i then see that some neurons are not firing in the brain ... and then map: since these neurons are not firing, there is no consciousness.
but the first conclusion "there is no awareness in deep sleep" to which i have mapped the neuron not firing is really a logical flaw. since , if there was no awareness ... there is no possibility of seeing a change! infact there is no possibility of knowing that there is such a state. if i know that there is a state of total lack of awareness ... it presupposes the existence of awareness !
This is purely logical flaw... study of neural dynamics aids us in understanding brain as an instrument better ... but there it ends.
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