(8 hours ago)babushka Wrote: ...
Usually these topics involve a fair bit of consciousness mambo jumbo that will state consciousness is nonlocal. There is a contradiction with the requirement of physical practice for an action that is apparently nonphysical. Perhaps the microtubules are quantum antennas, who knows?
...
Some possibilities to ponder.
A radio set is more than just the antenna. Yes, the antenna picks up the electromagnetic signal, but without the processing and output circuitry, it goes no further. Likewise, a brain in it's totality may be simply a receiver and processor for more ethereal signals.
The radio station a radio set receives is not within the radio itself, it is external to it, somewhere else. Also, there are literally hundreds of thousands of signals traveling through the same air at the same time. Which one you receive depends on how the radio is tuned... and a radio will not pick up TV or cell phone signals. Neither a radio, nor a TV, nor a cell phone will pock up light signals at all. In the light spectrum, human eyes will not pick up infrared or ultraviolet waves... yet they are still there. Other organisms, insects for example, have eyes that CAN pick those signals up. You have to have the right circuitry for the right signal.
Another thing to ponder is that all electronic circuits are made up of the same sorts of components - diodes,resistors, transistors, capacitors, etc. However,not all electronic equipment does the same ting or processes the same sorts of signals. Likewise, not all brains are "wired up" into the same sorts of circuits. Some will do things that others will not. It's a known fact that brains and neurons can "rewire" themselves into different configurations over time, for example to compensate for lost abilities.
Perhaps some brains take longer to rewire or reconfigure themselves, and perhaps others are born with the correct wiring for certain tasks naturally.
.
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake