[lit-ideas] Re: Am I subscribed?
- From: andy amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:32:57 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
You wrote:
the difference between appearance
and reality has been contested for centuries. To say that andy amago was in=
fact
subscribed beyond all doubt would be to accept the view that there is a way=
to
penetrate the veil of apperances (or, as one of John Wager's students might=
have
said, the 'Vale of Appearances') and see the world as it is, not as it seem=
s.
I wrote: Further complicating the appearances/reality debate is the new re=
search since the late 1990's that allows for functional MRI's of the brain.=
They are being used in the study of sleep and dreaming, areas as unknown =
to us as death, but slowly revealing some of their secrets. In today's com=
puter driven metaphors, it turns out that dreams are less the Freudian, Jun=
gian symbols formerly thought (although that has not been dismissed) and po=
ssibly more the "off line processing" that saves information to the brain's=
hard drive, as it were. Dreams are also now thought to be rehearsals of,=
ways to cope with, waking reality. In some of the dream experiments rats =
were run through a maze while connected to MRI equipment. MRI images take=
n while they were dreaming showed the rats running exactly the same mazes i=
n their REM sleep, pinpointed to the exact same timing and place, as they r=
an during the day. Curiously, too, babies in the womb dream, and they hav=
e no reality to refer to at all.
Geez, maybe I should go back to bed, count some epistemological one-sided s=
heep.
A.A.
Robert Paul
No more teachers, no more books at
Mutton College
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