what is the essense of life or consciousness, the most advanced
manifestation of life.
is consciousness the product of the FUNCTIONS of the human body or the
product of ENERGY of the food eaten by the body?
couldn't it be argued that the essence of life is not the organism but
the foodstuff eaten by the organism? the food turns into the energy of
life within/thru the organism, but isn't this energy(of the food)the
essence of living-ness? that which we identify as alive or conscious
is the energy from the food. no organism is alive by itself. it is a
vessel thru which foodstuff is processed into life or consciousness.
so, it could be argued that our thoughts are not really OUR thoughts
but of a carrot we've eaten, at least in material terms. the thoughts
are ours to the extent that each organism has a unique way of turning
foodstuff into patterns of consciousness, feelings, and thoughts.
but, the very material stuff of the thought itself is the energy
released from the foodstuff. consciousness is a form of energy
released by the organism--by its body. the very matter of
consciousness is foodstuff transformed into energy.
so, while most of us think in terms of man eating or using foodstuff
in order to live, it could be argued that foodstuff 'uses' organisms ...

Are you Russell Brand?

the nature of life and consciousness. is it body and mind OR food,
body, and mind?

No, it's food, mind , body, my dog, pecan harvesting, the whore in
Iraq, inverted nipples, pecker gnats, and 1956 Dodges.

On Jul 6, 5:30 pm, to sir with blob hotmail.com>
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I think the best answer is that consciousness and subjectivity is not
the brain or the food but is the activities of the brain.

brain activities extended across time is the self as the film moving
through a movie projector with light shining through is the movie.

the self is a group of ongoing activities;

On Jul 6, 8:30 pm, to sir with blob hotmail.com>
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On Jul 7, 2:02 pm, The_Man yahoo.com> wrote:

On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:02:47 -0700, The_Man
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Or even worse - 170 lines of boring rant quoted followed by line
complaining about it.

On Jul 6, 6:30 pm, to sir with blob hotmail.com>
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You just don't know where to divide it.
Yes, it has been said that Royal Raymond Rife
saw 'life all the way down', and this is
grandfathered in the 'smaller and smaller fleas to bite 'em'
lines.

The sun is starving to death... Quick ! someone feed it.

Where did the sun get it's energy ?
The cosmos is just eternally, spontaneoulsy, irrevocably dissipating,
getting ever cooler and less dense... I call this " Cosmic Entropy ".

Cosmic Entropy ( a.k.a. Dark Energy ) is Thee God Almighty,
the creator/maintainer/destroyer of all that was or ever will be.
But there are lesser gods, to be sure, doing essentially the same thing.

The history of science boils down to this one simple rule:
" Randomness is naught but ignorance. ". The cosmos just is, immobile.

If we could be all knowing,
we'd know that time is truly a spatial dimension, not directional.
Where are the real changes, the real choices ? they don't exist.

It's ignorance that makes life seem like a casino,
where all the players lose to the house, eventually.
Out of ignorance, we derive " meaning " from such games.

The more we consume the sooner we die but
the jack-pot winners consume more at the expense of the losers.
Rich or poor, each has but one life to live.

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