I wasted an entire working day, watching YouTube videos and reading articles in preparation for writing another post on consciousness. What did I learn? Every neuroscientist, psychologist, yogi and quantum physicist out there in video land, has no more idea about our mind that the original ancient Greek philosophers. Virtually every twenty-minute lecture, Tedx or otherwise, began with a series of quotes from long dead scientists and thinkers, gurus and religious leaders, to s

Darwinian Theory has a plethora of supportive evidence, from fossils to changes in our DNA, but can the same be said for our minds? Our understanding of the physical world, relies on what scientists tell us can be proven by rigorous testing procedures. Our reactions are tempered and adjusted according to our current notion of reality experienced by our senses. The problem with those methodologies is that we cannot calculate our feelings and emotions in terms of empirical meas