re. Target article 1, 'Is the Mind Real ?'.
(I have received a number of short comments from several participants who
for various reasons did not want to send in a formal commentary. These communications
cannot be included as formal commentaries, but since they contain some interesting
points, I do not want to simply discard them. Thus I will briefly summarize
what they wrote. Evidently I cannot do justice to their opinions in these
brief statements. In case they want to amplify on this, I would still like
to invite them to send in more formal statements, either as commentaries,
or as target articles if this serves their purpose better. Aside from this,
those interested can communicate directly with them; I include their e-mail
addresses.
I hope that this way of proceeding meets with the approval of the participants,
please let me know. If there are further short communications, I intend
to proceed in a similar way in the future.
HFJM)
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Fred Abraham: draws parallels to the chaos theory of Larry Vandervert, and
his own related theory as available at http://godel.psy.uwa.deu.au/dynapsyc/dynapsyc.html
and at www.blueberry-brain.org/dynamics/np.htm
( Fred Abraham PhD, is Professor, Dept. of Psychology and Interdisciplinary
Research Group, Silliman University, Dumaguete City 6200, Phillippines )<abraham@mozcom.com>
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Roger J Callahan: 'as I look around me it is hard to see things which are
not the work of human minds - carpeting, chairs, television sets, radios,
etc. Crick's Astonishing Hypothesis: DNA is mental coding - a mental coding
that exists independently in nature - not put there by human mind but obviously
a mind or meaning function. ... Arthur M. Young in his 'Geometry of Meaning',
etc.: the presumed objectivity of reading pointer readings is not tangible
- say for knowing that a current is going through a wire - to make it tangible
you must touch the wire and get the shock. ... Young provides a matrix for
understanding that coheres both with Jung and with Newton.'
( Roger J Callahan is a clinical psychologist, interested in psychotherapy,
and in Thought Field Therapy )
<72733.734@compuserve.com> Web http://www.tftrx.com
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Peter Morgan: states that he likes my presentation, but 'why should I accept
the nihilism of the 'zero structure reference' ... since there is so much
that is rich and useful out there (as Jaspers acknowledges in his discussion
of the 'encompassing')? -- this is a word that is probably ubiquitous in
the work of that philosopher ... 'nihilism' the Oxford English Dictionary
suggests to me is probably too strong, but I ssociated your 'zero' with
'nothing', 'nihil'. ... Is there 'an unstructured source ?' ... A 'structured
positive anchor' is needed (TA section 48). ... Reference: Karl Jaspers,
Basic Philosophical Writings, ed Ehrlich et al 1986. .. Suggest that Henry
Maudsley, 'Body and Mind' 1870, might make a good subject of discussion.'
( Peter Morgan is a retired Professor of English, with interest in the 19th
century critic Ruskin, and he has made some studies of Husserl and Heidegger.
)
<pmorgan@chass.utoronto.ca>
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Mariela Szirko: writes that she cannot analyze my paper because it is tributary
of monopsychism ... 'I am writing from a scholarly tradition in neurobiology
and psychophysics which is rather secluded ... Conceptually the main difference
is made by our hylozoist stance ... Among the peculiarities of our stance
is the emphasis on semoviency in psychisms. This term, semoviency, probably
an acceptably-founded neologism in English, may be best described as 'exemption
of reactivity' or 'starting causal physical series 'a novo' '. This special
kind of self-activation collides with standard cultural expectations regarding
what happens in supraquantum nature ... a stealthy collision very influential
on our work.' She is interested in discussion with physicists. - She refers
to a monograph by Alicia Avila and M.F.Crocco, 'Sensing: A new fundamental
action of nature', working manuscript, Ctr. Neurobiological Res., Ministry
of Health and Welfare, Buenos Aires, 1996, and to her own postings in JCS-online,
earlier in 1997.
(Mariela Szirko is Professor, Centro de Investigaciones Neurobiologicas,
Ministry of Health and Welfare, Argentine Republic, Buenos Aires)
<postmaster@neubio.sld.ar>
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I would appreciate receiving opinions about this format of short presentations.
And as I mentioned above, if some the authors want to elaborate on their
material, please let me have your formal commentaries or articles.
With best regards to all,
Herbert Muller
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PS. I am working on responses to various commentaries. This will take me
some time, because this is a rich harvest, and I have to find my way around
various frames of reference - please be patient.
HFJM