10-03-2018, 11:24 AM
I think the new part of what Jay presents is our place in the proposed model. Previous iterations of this idea show up in literature starting around the mid-1950s, but so far as I can find, it was never presented as an excuse to promote trust in the human intellect until recently. The older versions call into question whether you can trust your own mind. This newer version asserts that there can be a human intellectual consciousness apart from a physical brain; it degrades the soul to a mere mind.
This theory does have some tangential connection to what I said about Phenomenology. You may recall that Phenomenology is a philosophical assumption that all you really have is experience and perception when it comes to building an understanding your existence. It is inherently distrustful of the intellect, and approximates what I teach as the proper approach to human awareness. If you can't trust your brain, then you need to trust your heart.
This theory does have some tangential connection to what I said about Phenomenology. You may recall that Phenomenology is a philosophical assumption that all you really have is experience and perception when it comes to building an understanding your existence. It is inherently distrustful of the intellect, and approximates what I teach as the proper approach to human awareness. If you can't trust your brain, then you need to trust your heart.