What can one say about one whom says the following:
Kant was right. We can never know the thing-in-itself.
Even you have to filter your experience via the senses.
Since every example of conscious behaviour emanates from brain matter and seems to cease when the brain stops working...
I said;"When the brain dies so does the electromagnetic field that it generates."
And then finally:
Complete rubbish.
to their opposition for saying something that is foreign to their way of thinking?
I say that anyone using their 'senses'/'mind' to try and understand any 'thing-in-itself' is foolish to say that any particular bit of possible data is "'complete' rubbish" and is more of a clone than they are an original thinking entity. After all, all new understandings were once considered unbelievable. I wonder, "where is their sense of adventure in the realm of possibility."
Consider that the four known fundamental interactions are electromagnetism, strong interaction ("strong nuclear force"), weak interaction ("weak nuclear force"), and gravitation, all of which deal with either attraction or repulsion. They all sound like a product of like and dissimilar charges to me.
The newest 'theory' replacing classical electro-magnetism is Quantum electrodynamics (QED). QED is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics. In essence, it describes how light and matter interact.
In particle physics, all known particles either have a positive, negative or no charge. To date no one knows why or how, this is true. Keep in mind that these charged particles constitutes all the universe, including you and I and our brains, What is this charge? Where does it come from? it is the glue that allows for everything there is, as we know it. It is the one mysterious thing that is responsible for everything.
To date no one knows where the mind came from, how exactly it works. Only that it is manifest in the brain, which uses electricity (Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric 'charge,') as in particles, common to the entire universe? The glue that holds everything together?
Are brains and thus minds an ends to a means of 13 billion years of adaptation, is a super mind on the horizon? Is this the whole point? Is the human mind the expression/manifestation of the fundamental electromagnetic force, (charged particles) the mysterious glue that holds everything together? How many actual things in and of themselves are invisible to human senses?
Is it wise for a human with a limited ability of sensing, to smite any new idea of a human that has a limited ability of sensing the universe, simply based only upon that which came before, that was once just as unbelievable? How do we advance if we condemn, with absolute certainty, possibility that may one day be seen as reality.
It is in fact possible that electromagnetic energy can neither be created nor destroyed and merely changes states. In a universe of relative size and time, how much is too small or too large to be seen/understood by relatively small and yet large humans? Any relative thing is possible in a relative universe. Any relative thing in the universe is a relative of the universe.
P.S. Being certain is of the past, while being uncertain is of the future. Or rather the past breeds certainty, while the future breeds uncertainty. Is that why some seem to fear the future? As in it they see their death? Especially those that have had a brush with it?
