JITOTM18: You Asked Us Too
We've had so much interesting email from our listeners, we've devoted a second show to responding in kind. This week it's the mystical element of consciousness that has aroused curious and creative correspondance from the audience out there.
Why, for example, doesn't Jay talk about the work of Dr. David Hawkins? That leads first to a re-statement of Jay's area of expertise and interest, then ultimately to a discussion about what scientists can reasonably hope to study. There's also a reminder of the fact that scientific researchers are relatively new to the investigation of consciousness, having joined mystics, meditators, philosophers and psychologists in numbers only in the past couple of decades.
Then, from the sublime to the ridiculous (but we love it), a dedicated listener attempted to investigate the way that earworms get stuck in the mind, using a former Song of the Week! This kind of eager experimentation is greatly to be encouraged... and feel free to share your results with us.
Inquiry, interactivity, introspection and investigation form the foundations for a cool and casual conversation in Episode 18 of Jay Ingram's Theatre of the Mind, You Asked Us II.
Behind the curtain
- Early scientist/ponderers: Tyndall, Darwin, James, & Wallace
- Road map for consciousness studies: Koch & Crick's article
- The Dalai Lama's co-operation with researchers is controversial
- Song of the Week: "Paradise" by Manitoba Hal
We hope to have time to field more listener queries before our first season draws to a close in a few weeks, so keep them coming.
Thanks for listening- we're listening too.
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posted by David Newland at 2:12 PM
2 Comments:
Jay and DAVID (don't feel left out as I value you thoughts on my question too.) :)
So I was thinking about another Podcast I subscribe to and the subject matter was about time travel. And some scientists who were trying to or did devise a way of testing if it was possible to travel backwards in time. The fine details of this are not necessary to my question but were just the trigger for my ponderance about your podcast and our perception of time as it passes. And, it also got me thinking about a statement made in this particular podcast that it's a curiosity that we are able to remember the past and we are conscious of the present but cannot remember the future. Some would argue that remembering things that happened is a "way" of time travel into the past but with out the physicality of actually "being" in the past. Correct me if I am wrong (which happens a lot according to my wife) but didn't Einstein say that it was not possible to travel through time as it is impossible to exceed the speed of light. According to him you can slow the passage of time by traveling fast, and by fast I mean close to the speed of light. So this Eisteinism (for a lack of a better non-word)got me thinking about how these could all connect. I believe you've discussed in the past about how time seems to pass more slowly in some instances and faster in others, and I got to thinking what if all of these ideas on time were correct and that if it's not possible to travel faster than light maybe it's possible to "think ourselves" into the past or even the future. "People" say that we have only just begun to understand the power of the mind" maybe this is one of the things on the horizon of our conciousness that we may be able to control in the future as the hman body continues to evolve however scary that maybe. I was wondering what you gentlemen think about this idea? Am I just talking all rubbish?
Thanks for listening
Doug Blessin
11:34 PM
Further to my original post here is a link to sort of what I was talking about.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19325961.400
2:20 AM
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