SSPA X B GITA 4.24 TO 4.28 X ADVAITIC PRAYER IN B GITA 4.24

 

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OFFERING SELF TO BRAHMA X HIGHEST FORM OF YAGNA 

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CONTROL OF SENSES AS OFFERING

TURIYANANDA SHERBAT RETURN STORY - RETURN AS IT TASTES GOOD

YOGI V BHOGI 

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CONFUCIOUS Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

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ROOSEVELT "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

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EDISON "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

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DEEPER PRACTICE

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PROMISORY MATERIALISM

His mistake is to go further, and conclude that physical goings-on can’t possibly be conscious goings-on. Many make the same mistake today — the Very Large Mistake (as Winnie-the-Pooh might put it) of thinking that we know enough about the nature of physical stuff to know that conscious experience can’t be physical. We don’t. We don’t know the intrinsic nature of physical stuff, except — Russell again — insofar as we know it simply through having a conscious experience.

So the hard problem is the problem of matter (physical stuff in general). If physics made any claim that couldn’t be squared with the fact that our conscious experience is brain activity, then I believe that claim would be false. But physics doesn’t do any such thing. It’s not the physics picture of matter that’s the problem; it’s the ordinary everyday picture of matter. It’s ironic that the people who are most likely to doubt or deny the existence of consciousness (on the ground that everything is physical, and that consciousness can’t possibly be physical) are also those who are most insistent on the primacy of science, because it is precisely science that makes the key point shine most brightly: the point that there is a fundamental respect in which ultimate intrinsic nature of the stuff of the universe is unknown to us — except insofar as it is consciousness.

Galen Strawson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and the author, most recently, of “Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness and Concernment.

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