29th December 2006, 2:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 29th December 2006, 3:40 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Problem is, there is no "experience of being a flower". You only learned what you dreamed being a flower is like, not the reality, since there is no reality of "what it is like to be a flower" to be had.
We've learned a lot about the brain, but if you are going to claim that we can "multi task" multiple concii, you better offer some evidence beforehand. That's how science works. It's fine to have this sort of hypothesis, but you better do some testing. It's up to you how to go about that.
By the way, the human mind has certain analogies to a computer, but modern computers still operate in many ways differently than the human brain.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. In other words, trying to force fit the human brain into your computer knowledge is a pretty poor idea.
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hallucinations.png">
This is an interpretation of dreaming that is backed by the evidence at least. Anything more requires more evidence to support it.
We've learned a lot about the brain, but if you are going to claim that we can "multi task" multiple concii, you better offer some evidence beforehand. That's how science works. It's fine to have this sort of hypothesis, but you better do some testing. It's up to you how to go about that.
By the way, the human mind has certain analogies to a computer, but modern computers still operate in many ways differently than the human brain.
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. In other words, trying to force fit the human brain into your computer knowledge is a pretty poor idea.
<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hallucinations.png">
This is an interpretation of dreaming that is backed by the evidence at least. Anything more requires more evidence to support it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)