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...Damasio in his book Descartes' Error, is created by the body-specifically by the brain. Utterly contrary to common sense, though, and to the evidence gathered from our own introspection, consciousness may be nothing more than an evanescent by-product of more mundane, wholly physical processes -- much as a rainbow is the result of the interplay of light and raindrops. Input from the senses clearly plays a part; so do body chemicals whose ebb and flow we experience as feelings and emotions. Memory, too, is involved, along with language-the way humans translate concepts into symbolic form...
...upshot, says Llinas: "We can say that being awake or being conscious is nothing but a dreamlike state." It is a state, Llinas concedes, that corresponds tightly to external reality. But it has no objective reality; as with a rainbow, you can perceive it but never actually touch or measure...
South Pacific nations andeco-protestersin several countries denounced the storming of Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II by French commandos on Sunday, but France stood firm in its controversial plan to renewnuclear testingin September. The 15-nation South Pacific Forum said the action, in which 150 commandoes used tear gas to stop the ship before it reached French waters off the Mururoa atoll where eight tests are planned, was "totally over the top." To make matters worse, the incident fell on the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the first Rainbow Warrior by French agents in New Zealand. Protesters in London...
Tyler had studied ballet before coming to Radcliffe in 1941. She performed a dance for the Entertainment Unit, but hit a pair of rainbow striped men's boxers underneath her ballet costume...
Jackson is without peer as a speaker on national issues. He has been a presidential candidate, has resolved international incidents, is founder of the Rainbow Coalition and is arguably the most visible and eloquent spokesperson for civil rights in our time. He is equally comfortable at Burke High School, the downtown jail, and the Harvard Law School. Surely, he deserved single billing at the Kennedy School that evening. Joseph W. Hogan Graduate Student in Biostatics