fridayneedles: The Purple Glow Effect. an excerpt from ‘Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics’ by Nick Herbert: Experiments to Detect Inner Experience - The “Purple Glow Effect”Suppose there is a small central portion of the brain that is responsible for consciousness while the rest of the brain is a brain’s central authority. (As evidence for the notion that consciousness is a localized brain function, we observe that large portions of the cortext and other segments of the central nervous system can be removed without loss of consciousness.) Suppose moreover that whenever a person is awake (not asleep, comatose, or “absentminded”) this crucial portion of the brain emits a distincitive p u r p l e g l o w . Unlike electricaly signals, which are produced at all times, this glow occurs only in association with conscious experience. Suppose that furthers research shows that although the purple glow is physically identical to ordinary light, its production cannot be explained by normal electromagnetic mechnisms. In order to fit the purple glow phenomenon into physics, scientists must invoke a previously unsuspected new force linking light and the inner life, a link that mystics have metaphorically celebrated for centuries. (It goes without saying that evidence for purple glow or any other special physical manifestation of awareness is nil.)Alternatively, instead of ordinary light, conscious entities might signal their presence by emitting new kinds of elementary particles (cogitons?). Cogitons might be detectable by physical means or they might interact only with other conscious beings, leading to a new class of particle detector. Thus the human mind would act as a sort of psychic Geiger counter.The “purple glow,” “cogiton,” or similar phenomena would represent a simple and direct answer to the behaviorist challened. These phenomena are (or would be, if they existed) types of physical behavior uniquely associated with consciousness and with no other physical process. The presence of such phenomena would open consciousness (human and otherwise) to examination via the same objective methods that have been so successful in the physical sciences. Purple-glow physicists might even detect the purple glow in inanimate systems and draw the conclusion (scientifically based, not mere prejudice) that stars, rocks, and atoms are conscious.
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i really want to eat an endangered animal one day

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masterandmuse:

Aladeen is my spirit person

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and when life sucks i just enjoy the head
im so sick of these niggas i need medddddds

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