Closing in on consciousness?

Good metaphor, BA! Axel

The notion of materialistic science ever 'Closing in on consciousness' reminds me of the story of Baron von Münchhausen who claimed he could pull himself (and the horse he was sitting on) out of a swamp by his own hair. Or as Dr. Eben Alexander put it:

(Harvard neurosurgeon) Dr. Eben Alexander Says It's Time for Brain Science to Graduate From Kindergarten - 10/24/2013 Excerpt: As long as scientists hold onto that simplistic (materialistic) thinking they are going to be mired down to never, ever explain consciousness or the enigmas of quantum mechanics. But there are a lot of scientists out there who do get it,,, The pure scientific materialist model that I worshiped for so many years has absolutely nothing to offer up in terms of explaining how consciousness might emerge from the physical brain.,,, consciousness is a far deeper, more profound mystery than "kindergarten level" scientific materialism offers up.,, It's time for brain science, mind science, physics, cosmology, to move from kindergarten up into first grade and realize we will never truly understand consciousness with that simplistic materialist mindset. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ingrid-peschke/near-death-experiences_b_4151093.html

Or as Max Planck so aptly put it:

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing postulates consciousness. Max Planck

So simple a child can see it, and yet the swamp is filled with materialistic PhDs tugging away at their hair trying vainly to pull themselves out. :) Baron von Münchhausen in the swamp - painting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma#mediaviewer/File:Muenchhausen_Herrfurth_7_500x789.jpg bornagain77