Thanks for the link to Chiron's blog article. I too find his notes on meditation fascinating.
You may want to consider reading the works of Daniel Dennett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett), particularly Consciousness Explained (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained). The book makes a strong argument against classic explanations for consciousness. One of my favorite bits is the discussion of an experiment which demonstrated that mental processes which initiate a physical action (like pressing a button when a light comes on) start some 300 milliseconds before the stimuli prompting the action is acknowledged at the conscious level.
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Date: 2007-06-28 06:43 am (UTC)You may want to consider reading the works of Daniel Dennett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett), particularly Consciousness Explained (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained). The book makes a strong argument against classic explanations for consciousness. One of my favorite bits is the discussion of an experiment which demonstrated that mental processes which initiate a physical action (like pressing a button when a light comes on) start some 300 milliseconds before the stimuli prompting the action is acknowledged at the conscious level.