Word: phenomenons
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...this lamentation, at Lennon or Presley volume, for the leader of a group that in 30 years had exactly one Top 10 single (1987's acerbic but hummy Touch of Grey)? Well, for a few reasons. One is that the Dead was a phenomenon as a road band: it played before more people for more years than any combo in history. Another is that it was a time capsule for the elan of the '60s, hopeful and engaged, melodious and raucous. It was also the ragged champs of the art of improvisation. If rock musicians prove their wits by vamping...
...created by the body-specifically, by the brain.'' Nonsense. Without experience and memory, the brain is mindless. LEWIS P. LIPSITT Providence, Rhode Island Via E-mail Particularly muddled is the idea that consciousness is just an illusion manufactured by the brain. Any illusion by definition is a conscious phenomenon. Thus the view of consciousness as mere illusion contradicts itself. We must do more than reduce the mind to a mass of brain circuits if we want to understand subjective human experience. DONALD MENDER, M.D. New York City...
...mention the profound religious consequences of the scientific investigation of consciousness. If it turns out to be true that consciousness--the soul--is not a separate reality but a consequential phenomenon of the material world, then a fundamental truth of Christianity is shown not to be true. Because the concepts of heaven and hell and eternal life are based on the immateriality and indestructibility of the soul, the scientific demonstration of the material basis of consciousness would seem to mean the end of Christianity. PAUL B. MARSH Lansing, Michigan...
...When case after case after case, these consistent stories occur, it became clear to me that this, although mysterious, was a robust phenomenon," Mack told The Crimson in April...
Another well-documented example of the brain's need to fill in the blanks is the phenomenon of phantom limbs. When an arm or a leg is amputated, the victim almost invariably "feels" sensations like pain or itching, often very strongly, in the missing limb. What's happening? The brain carries within it a mental map of the body, a well-formed sense of where every part is in relation to every other. That's why it's possible for you to extend your arm and then, with your eyes closed, bring it in to touch the tip of your...