tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post8969630919352470031..comments2024-01-08T06:21:35.864-08:00Comments on Notes in Samsara: P.Z. Myers responds on NDEs...Mumon Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01116967568502451788noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7756920.post-23474114408318777612012-04-28T07:16:21.113-07:002012-04-28T07:16:21.113-07:00Money quote: "Beauregard is making the ignora...Money quote: "Beauregard is making the ignorant mistake of assuming that our consciousness is a continuous stream of recorded mental activity, and that a remembered event must necessarily have actually occurred.<br /><br />"That’s not how memories work. Our brains don’t tuck away a movie of our experiences somewhere in our temporal lobe; they store a few little details away, with a web of associations, and basically reconstruct the event when we try to recall it. This is why eyewitness testimony is unreliable — memory is dynamic and constantly being modified by later experience. When we lose conscious awareness and later recover it, the brain has absolutely no problem inventing a continuous narrative to fill in the blanks, and in fact, the way our minds work, we want that narrative. To consider that we didn’t exist for an interval of time is something we linear creatures tend to shy away from."<br /><br />We succumb to the seductions of woo out of ignorance about the nature of mind.Algernonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01698040927871199780noreply@blogger.com