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We need to understand that the more complex contemporary models of the human ‘mind’ are meaningful only against a background of understanding the unity of the psyche in which for example knowledge is one thing, whatever it is that we know. Recent suggestions regarding the link of neuropsychology to consciousness are that “we cannot understand consciousness until we know how the brain generates it.” Or: “The specific neural computations that underlie individual cognitive functions remain elusive.” There is in all this an assumption that brain generates mind, and unless it is the ‘whole truth’ this assumption or pre-judgement automatically leads to misunderstanding. This brings us back to a new expansion of a diagram from the previous paper. The thought of the tradition speaks of dividing, of the idea that to understand something we must first divide it correctly. To do this we must sometimes distinguish more than one way of dividing our idea of something, depending on how we observe it. In the case of the three levels, we can see here how external and internal views give slightly different appearances and groupings.
External and internal views of the three ‘levels’. In the sensory view of modern science ( Column 1 ) we have three options. We can perceive the body directly and observe the nerves and their activity through instruments. We can perceive what modern thought calls the ‘semantic’ level in the spoken or written words of people. We cannot observe the third level in any way meaningful to the criteria of scientific culture, so we tend to believe that the ‘invisible’ parts of a human being are also non-existent. Thus Palamas reminds us that God has “made foolish the wisdom of the world”? (1 Corinthians 1:20.) |
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