Neurophilosophy of Consciousness, Vol.VII
The Unexpected Transition from Idealism to Realism
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Dear Daniel, Barbie, Nini, my surviving brothers and sisters, Angell Jr. wherever you may be in a better world in heaven than that grayish looking prison room at Sullivan St. that Suzi re-Mom chose for us after marrying Daddy. I am sure none of you –or me included- will ever understand why, I had my named brand fashion style, the latest computer soft and hardware gadgets, smiled and happily strummed my electric guitar while at the same time consistently refusing medical help for my platelets production dysfunction which eventually I knew will cause my death from internal bleeding, like Daddy kept repeating and repeating to me in frustration, like a daily litany. He doesn’t seem to understand that I want to be independent and self sufficient like he is and wanted all of us to be. If it is true that every time you depend on someone else you surrender that precious freedom in proportion to your degree of dependence. Why does he not get it? What you are about to read below is a rambling rationalization of living experiences I never try to interpret or understand myself. Like a feeling of impending doom I could not stop or change its evolving path into an uncertain future with no lights to be seen at the end of the tunnel. So why not have fun doing things ‘my way’, look up at the Central Florida skies and hopelessly wait for miracles that I knew beforehand that will never happen. Just bear with me, I will be bragging a little, sometimes crying a lot after several green Heineken beers, as I continue to live and let live while I wait with a smile for the inevitable course of events with contrived happiness and a smile, I wanted to do it my way. But please promise me you won’t read this account of my controversial life until I am buried or cremated as the case may be. Who cares anyway, life continues. There is not really an awful lot you don’t already know about the circumstances surrounding my lifetime travels with Mom and Dad before you were even born and afterwards, but there are a few details that really made a difference, especially those living like a spoiled brat inside the State University of Puerto Rico campus premises inside Henry Barracks military camp in Cayey, Puerto Rico, which you are yet unacquainted with. And, of course, how they evolved after that frustrating, yet delightful experience with my girl friend Alejandra. The rest that followed in New York City, Long Island, New York, Spain, and Maryland happened before Nini was born. But none like the experience In Macondo, USA when I was exposed to the Spanish language for the first time during my pre-teen years. They have forever shaped my character by providing ethical and moral standards from various available perspectives to choose from as my guiding torch into the uncertainties of an always uncertain future. Do you remember when Alejandra, my Chilean next door girl friend in Henry Barracks…..
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The information explosion we have witnessed in the last two decades has unexpectedly accelerated the relentless, forward evolutionary process of complexity as experienced in the ‘real’ existential reality as narrated from human to human in the language semantic accounts of our communications. Sometimes there are consistent, verifiable experiences by all witnesses that resist being described in common language terms and their undeniable presence must then be inferred by using justifiable representation and must be communicated instead in a justifiable symbolic or sentential representation as an ‘ideal’ explanation model. We then have two choices to fashion our model, we can either sacrifice the elegance of the model if we base it strictly on verifiable observables or emphasize on the elegance of a more demanding mathematical logic representation of the same subjective experience. Both approaches lead to the same speculations/conjectures about the micro or macro cosmological environment of the unseen. The author endorses the Lagrangian Quantum Field Theory (QFT) as our most empirically, well-confirmed physical theory where the ‘ideal’ explanation of the metaphysical component of the empirical object/events is more reliable than the axiomatic approach mathematical theorists prefer. However the best of both must harmonize. The reliance on verifiable sensory facts excels in the expediency of calculations and their intuitive understanding because it is closer to phenomenological experimental manipulation in the physics lab. That makes the derived metaphysical ‘ideal’ model poem more credible when applying the theory to make predictions.
If we had to choose only one it is clear that when pragmatics and rigor lead to the same conclusion, then, as the author has argued, pragmatics trumps rigor due to the resulting simplicity, efficiency, and increase in understanding made possible. Most important, however, is that it allows for preparations for unexpected new environmental circumstances as they get empirically detected. Consequently, a hybrid unit wholeness of existential mesoscopic reality is defended.
About the Author
After so many years of laboring within the confined university walls of academe, retirement becomes both a threat and a challenge. Never before did you have the time to follow up on the few occasions serendipitous enlightenments flashed across your path. Tenure and cost-efficient, pragmatic considerations always kept you away. But there is no excuse now. Is it worth it? I would like to invite all those studious of the mind/brain interface puzzle to share our insights. What follows represents an ongoing series of reflections on the ontology of consciousness based on some intuitions on life, language acquisition, and survival strategies to accommodate the biological, psychic, and social imperatives of human life in its ecological niche, thus the BPS model. For the latest publication, click on BPS Model. http://www.delaSierra-Sheffer.net/ID-Neurophilo-net/index.htm