Comments on: Emerging understanding http://charbonniers.org/2009/07/01/emerging-understanding/ A blog on consciousness by Janet Kwasniak Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Mariana http://charbonniers.org/2009/07/01/emerging-understanding/#comment-639 Mariana Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:38:18 +0000 http://charbonniers.org/2009/07/01/emerging-understanding/#comment-639 Why would they use such a vague explanation if they were not hiding their thinking from us? I think the guys who contradicted themselves are probably scientist who are afraid to appear to be religious or to have mystic beliefs, so they force what they say to avoid even to get near the concepts they fear, so the explanation ends up being vague. I think it is true the explanation of the word is complicated, because It might involve referring to things we do not know, we do not have the concept to stand on for defining it, we might be unable to even imagine the possibility of the existence of it, and other difficulties. Why would they use such a vague explanation if they were not hiding their thinking from us?

I think the guys who contradicted themselves are probably scientist who are afraid to appear to be religious or to have mystic beliefs, so they force what they say to avoid even to get near the concepts they fear, so the explanation ends up being vague.

I think it is true the explanation of the word is complicated, because It might involve referring to things we do not know, we do not have the concept to stand on for defining it, we might be unable to even imagine the possibility of the existence of it, and other difficulties.

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