Greetings, Friendlies. :) Following on from our description of Simple Knowing… In The Social Brain (and in Who’s In Charge?) Gazzaniga recounts an experience illustrating the interpreter module doing its thing on top of basic sensory input. We might say Saṅkhāra-ing/Fabrication in action. Remember how, for Split-Brain Patients, you can present information to one hemisphere […]
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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 […]
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, […]
Greetings, Friendlies! Coming off the highs of irreverent pāli translations, we descend into the doldrums of cognitive explication. (Not for me. I LUV this stuff. But I get that it’s not for eveyone.) So. Modular Brains. This concept came up previously in the “Viññāṇa/Consciousness Of” post. But respecting our PPP Methodology it is here broken […]
Greetings, Friendlies! I harbor some baseless supposition (BS?) that classical dhamma education unfolds via a structure honed over, perhaps, several thousand years? Theories and practices presented in an order and at a pace curated and refined for generations. Practical. Reproducible. Safe. I have not been the beneficiary (or victim) of such a system; coming up […]
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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