RE: Looking for clues in the world's biggest brain bank

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 17:12:01 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Looking for clues in the world's biggest brain bank
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:12:01 -0000
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    Uh oh.... huge can of worms here.

    We got into quite a heated debate not long ago about mysticism that's
    probably best not reopened (especially since it brought the worst out in
    some of us- me included).

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Dini
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:48 am
    > To: MEMETICS
    > Subject: Re: Looking for clues in the world's biggest brain bank
    >
    > What a fascinating article. But the thought kept coming to me that science
    > and, call it mysticism, should get together on this.
    > In ancient days the mystics were the scientists and the scientists were
    > the mystics. Only once more and more of physical science was understood
    > and 'proven', did they split into two groups.
    > But now is the time, in this new age, where many scientists are getting
    > deeper thoughts than those relating to physical science, the two should
    > get back together again and become one 'science', or maybe one
    > 'mysticism'. We could even call it scientific mysticism, are whatever
    > variation one could think of.
    > This combined knowledge, not like TWO different kinds of knowledge thrown
    > together, but as a duality, as ONE, may just find the answer to what
    > consciousness really is - and from there, eventually, all the secrets of
    > the Universe, the Cosmos.
    > Regards,
    > Dini
    >

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