X-Message-Number: 14718
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:04:36 +0200
From: Henri Kluytmans <>
Subject: The Mind : standing waves & self circuit

-->Hi,

I asked :

>I still dont understand how those "standing waves of some 
>sort" are constituting feelings.  Could you please elaborate?

Robert Ettinger replied : 

>So here is the nub of my suggestion. Feeling is rooted in standing waves in 
>the brain. "You" (when not completely unconscious) are a particular standing 
>wave, or set of such. The standing wave is your feeling of being.
Modulations 
>or perturbations of the standing wave(s) represent the CONTENT of feeling,
or 
>qualia, i.e. subjective experiences of something happening. 

What I am curious to know are the following things :

1) What fundamental physical mechanisms are the carriers of these 
standing waves ?

2) What kind of physical mechanism is transferring the information 
(i.e. the "content" of feeling) from those "standing waves" over 
to the conventional neural mechanisms and vice versa ?

Feelings do influence our behavior, and experiences influence our 
feelings, so in one way or another these feelings, constituted by 
these "standing waves", will have to interact with the more familiar 
functioning of the neurons.

3) What was the scientific motivation for introducing such a model of 
standing waves ?


Grtz,
>Hkl

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