Is My I-Phone Conscious?: Week 4, Post 9-

The beginning of this excerpt I read from Mr. David Lane, my Professor, I agree completely that it is quiet necessary to not only have your own personal position on each varying issue, but to also put yourself on the other side and try to see things from the opposite point of view if one is to truly come to a complete conclusion on any one issue. One has to almost become the devil’s advocate and argue against themselves to get the full scope of what may be possible, even if one doesn’t change their viewpoint.
I further read the story about Ramana and the conscious dream state and her telling the people in the dream state that it was not their minds in this dream state that were making this dream brain function it was actually the Hitherto state of awareness called the waking state that made this dream brain function, the people in the dream state didn’t buy it. I thought that was rather interesting because Ramana further explained to “churchland” that she could not prove this any other way then for one to die to be able to come back to the actual waking state which was controlling everything in the dream state. The speaker’s story was to show that everything caused by the physical brain may appear to be perfectly sensible in this present waking state awareness, but may in truth be completely wrong if indeed there were higher states of awareness in which this and other states were subsumed.