Sense and Sensibility - The Reliability of Sensibility!

[TheDerminator]

I have a friend who is dyslexic, and who is an intelligent person. Dyslexia, is a problem of perception, and not of a reflection of a low intelligence.

In Scotland, most of us possess a common language, which we use in our consciousness, and most of us can read and write, as does my dyslexic friend, who is very cynical about BORG society, as peaccenicked
can testify.
You do not need to stop at dyslexia.
Blind peope communicate. People who cannot speak or talk still communicate. Never, never can we say that a lack of a sense perception, makes a person unintelligent, or makes a person possess a communicative consciousness.
It is not sense perception, which makes an understanding of the world a false understanding, it is the form of consciousness, of the person.
You might say that all forms of consciousness are interdependent upon sense perceptions, and these perceptions are flawed, but you have to live in the real world.
I have short-sightedness, but with the aid of an optician, my eyesight is functional. I can read and write, and the fact that I need to wear either glasses or contact lenses does not affect my understanding of any word I read or write. My understanding is gained through my conscious understanding.
The eye is a necessary medium, although, if I went blind, I would learn a medium for the blind. The medium is not unimportant, but as long as there is a medium, you are not catatonic.
Flawed "consciousness"? Can anyone become a perfect human being?
Sounds like a question for speculative science! Sure as hell, not during my life time!
Flawed consciousness. Well, if you are only capable of giving subjective opinion, that is a flawed consciousness. It is a lack of an objectification of your own social circumstances.
All consciousness, is historically grounded. If we take a person out of one time zone into another time zone from the past to the future, the person has the same biological perceptions as ourselves, but not the same consciousness, about our technologies.
We are not isolated individual's stuck on a desert island, we are social beings, and there is no mystery to flawed perceptions or flawed consciousness.
All perception has to be is functional, and we can prove that functionality, by there fact that we possess a medium to communicate to people.
What You See Is not Always What You Get! But we do not have to mystify flaws in the perception organs or mystify deliberate optical illusions. We can explain them scientifically.
" All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice."
Karl Marx.
I would add, that all consciousness is a practical-activity, thus it this theoretical practise is the foundation for the resolution, and comprehension of practise.
Very little human activity is not related directly to the conscious activity of the mind. We have to heed the call of nature so to speak, we have to sleep, we have to eat and drink some thing, though the form of the latter is decided in consciousness to some extent, though, sometimes people do not have a great choice.
Yep, consciousness is a practical activity initself, and you ought to know that any time you study a subject at school or at college or at university, or in a library or in your home. Studying is a practical learning activity, and gives you certain skills, you would not possess without that studying.
It is not education for the sake of education, it is education for the sake of knowledge. Knowledge can be very useful, and just because it is not useful to you individually, does not mean it has no use value to society.
Ofcourse, there are examples of useless knowledge.
It is called symbolic logic! And I would add that the "meta-critique" of Roy Baskhar is even worse than useless!
All that hat stuff is maybe going to be picked up by some marketing exec for a beret manufacturer! Er um. Maybe not! Could it be useless too! Who knows the great mysteries of life?
Durp!

Be afraid, be very afraid...

Resistance is Futile!

May the Force be with U!

derminated

[Supermodel]

These are terriffic thoughts. Let me add to the discussion with some thoughts on what is in, and is not in, the human brain.

The brain has three parts. If I were Che I could name them, like the outer cortex, the hippocampus and the something in the center. Let's call them outer cortex, inner cortex, and core.

The outer cortex of your brain contains the things you have learned. When you are born this is a blank new disk and from day one you are absorbing info about the world around you. All your opinions, actions, reasoning and nature are determined by the collection of junk you put into the outer cortex.

The middle part, which I think is the hippocampus, controls all reflex actions, i.e., anything basely human and impossible or hard to control. Of course this includes the pumping of your heart, function of the liver and kidneys, and desires to sleep, eat and have sex. Importantly, it also includes the reflex to breathe.

The reason breathing is very important is that it is the one reflex action that humans can learn to control to a small extent. You know how yoga and meditation start with breathing exercises and control? That is because once you start to control your breathing you gain some insight into controling, perhaps, other reflexes that are instinctual and thus you gain mastery of your body in an obi-wan-kenobi kind of way.

Now the most perplexing part is the core of your brain because no one knows what it does. Most interestingly, there is a void in the core of the brain that disconnects it from the other parts of the brain. It is believed by yogi (yoga-ists if you like) that the spirit, God, intuition, sixth sense, eternal life, whatever, lives in the core. Yogis hope to peek in there by gaining more control over the other parts of the brain.

I hope some of our Wiccan members join in this conversation because they I think have a strong belief in people's supernatural powers, intuition, or sixth sense. For me there is no denying there exists a sixth sense, intuition or prediction ability, of knowing what you have never seen or heard of before. Like a feeling of dread that something bad is about to happen or a sudden dream about someone you have not seen in years or never seen before. The feeling of Deja-vu. I've been told that women in particular have felt this more strongly.

Up till the middle ages, humans were more inclined to use their intuitive abilities and the power of mind over matter, until the white males of the world called it witch craft. It was therefore stamped out. If you study what is now called witchcraft, and forget the devil-worshipping BS, you will see that it is basically a religion of using the sixth sense and extra sensory powers to influence the world.

Native americans (indians) I have spoken to also agree there are human powers that are dying out. One chief I was lucky to meet assured me that his grandfather, who never mey a white man, could speak to the animals and to mother earth.

OK let's keep this going, Toughts, folks.....