Comments on: The Conscious Observer http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: graeme http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/comment-page-1/#comment-253 graeme Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:03:42 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/#comment-253 I have never been very good at philosophical or theological arguments. I get lost very quickly. I have never understood the bit about the tree falling in the forrest. Years ago I went to my first rain forrest in lamington national park. A ranger explained to me how the tree had a consciousness. It put out on its a trunk a carbuncle of softer and more delectable wood that drew in the white ant so it went no further. THus it survived. this profoundly affected me as I looked at this magnificent living being. This tree being. I was in a holy cathedral of trees. I saw the tree on the ground next to it. Maybe its friend. It had fallen. That is the only way it could have got there.It had fallen a long time before I came. I have never been very good at philosophical or theological arguments. I get lost very quickly. I have never understood the bit about the tree falling in the forrest. Years ago I went to my first rain forrest in lamington national park. A ranger explained to me how the tree had a consciousness. It put out on its a trunk a carbuncle of softer and more delectable wood that drew in the white ant so it went no further. THus it survived. this profoundly affected me as I looked at this magnificent living being. This tree being. I was in a holy cathedral of trees. I saw the tree on the ground next to it. Maybe its friend. It had fallen. That is the only way it could have got there.It had fallen a long time before I came.

]]> By: a savage http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/comment-page-1/#comment-252 a savage Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:40:41 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/#comment-252 Your words lead me to wonder about how our fear of mortality compels our desire for predictability and to know all things. So my experience of consciousness is limited by my unwillingness to accept that Schroedinger's cat could be dead or alive or neither or both...I don't like cats, but not knowing can be agony within the entanglement of an ego. Your words lead me to wonder about how our fear of mortality compels our desire for predictability and to know all things. So my experience of consciousness is limited by my unwillingness to accept that Schroedinger’s cat could be dead or alive or neither or both…I don’t like cats, but not knowing can be agony within the entanglement of an ego.

]]> By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Father Robin Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:30:39 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/#comment-248 Circumloquation does not become you. Or it shouldn't do at least. Trees were falling long before we learnt how to climb them. Circumloquation does not become you.

Or it shouldn’t do at least.

Trees were falling long before we learnt how to climb them.

]]> By: Ted Scott http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Ted Scott Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:24:34 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/#comment-246 Father Robin, you only think I think too much and in so doing you think too much! Mark the real question is not would there be a noise, but without conscious observers would there be a tree? Father Robin, you only think I think too much and in so doing you think too much!

Mark the real question is not would there be a noise, but without conscious observers would there be a tree?

]]> By: Mark Brookes http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Mark Brookes Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:56 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/#comment-245 If a huge tree crashes to the ground in a forest, does it make a "noise" if there is no conscious being to hear it? If a huge tree crashes to the ground in a forest, does it make a “noise” if there is no conscious being to hear it?

]]> By: Father Robin http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Father Robin Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:49:05 +0000 http://tedscott.aampersanda.com/2009/12/17/the-conscious-observer/#comment-243 Ah, Ted. You think too much, such things are dangerous. As far as Phil's book is concerned there is only one degree of freedom (jumping the queue)!?. According to Plotinus, we are all One. Plotinus is One cool guy. Ah, Ted.

You think too much, such things are dangerous.

As far as Phil’s book is concerned there is only one degree of freedom (jumping the queue)!?.

According to Plotinus, we are all One.

Plotinus is One cool guy.

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