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The Mind in a Mythless Universe

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  • sounds like some damasio story about a man who had a brain damage which made him loose emotions. he could still think clearly but didn't come to any decisions...

  • @jak1428 Phineas Gage was his name.  Very interesting stuff

  • @conferencereport oh. i read about the sad railway worker story as well. but this time i was refering to an interview i recently saw on foratv. the title is "Antonio Damasio: This Time With Feeling ". he talks about one of his still living patients in the 4th segment ("How Emotion Affects Decision-Making")

  • @jak1428 Oh yes, I saw that one. Really good I thought.

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  • 13:15

    We are animals

  • I had an experience with mushrooms, high dose, where i actually joined this state you are talking of, where there is no thinking, but just feeling. I have been there several times. It`s like the mind is broken somehow. There is the knowledge of having the ability of thinking, but it isn`t possible. It feels dumb somehow and when the feeling is not liked this can be a hard thing. But it is possible to enter this state; i think, not only with mushrooms.

  • This is only vaguely on topic, but did you see the latest Zeitgeist movie? And if so, what did you think of it?

  • Fred's Concept Soup.

    Brought to you by Consciousness.

    It does exactly what it says on the tin, man.

  • you are the projection you are that perception as sub conscious vission, from the sub atomic the sub conscious as mind,,,, to the conscious atomic displayed as the real

  • @cardellacole4 the dream was instantainious the dream was like love to divide and multiply,,thus bang

  • @PostNeutral No problem. You don't remember the name of the documentary by any chance do you?

  • @PostNeutral Is this experiment about the Iowa Gambling Task video I did?

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