Greetings, Friendlies! I am so excited to be writing this post. Remember a gazillion years ago when I proposed the PPP series? It was this concept, Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Module, that was the spark that lit the whole thing off. And now I finally get to tell you about it. :))) We had the classic question […]
Tag: consciousness
Brain Modularity and Consciousness Of. In Who’s In Charge, Gazzaniga says there is no gatekeeper to conscious experience. It’s just a plethora of subsystems, “modules”, competing for consciousness. So. Many. Questions. Your thoughts?
Greetings, Friendlies! In Part 8 we considered the modularity of brain organization. So what? Well, at the 50,000 foot level, if avijjā resides primarily in not understanding the kind of beings we are, then understanding brain function is a movement towards less avijjā. But let’s zoom from 50,000 to, say, 20,000 feet and ask again, […]
Perhaps. Regarding Viññāṇa, I first heard the phrasing “Consciousness Of” from John Peacock’s “Buddhism Before the Theravada” series (Part 5, 53:45): “…consciousness is always a consciousness of…” something. That is, Gotama spoke of consciousness always having an object. (MN 38) “Consciousness is reckoned according to the very same condition dependent upon which it arises. Consciousness that […]
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