And lo on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:59 -0000, Patrick Elliott  
<sel### [at] rraznet> did spake, saying:

> In article <op.t5m1okjkc3xi7v@news.povray.org>,
> phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk says...
>> And lo on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:22:57 -0000, bluetree <nomail@nomail> did
>> spake, saying:
>>
>> > "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>>
>> Back to the serious bit. I think the gestalt or 'one with the mind of  
>> God'
>> is a possibiity if you think of each individual joining as a voice in  
>> the
>> choir, similar to that voice in your head telling you that you shouldn't
>> eat that gooey cream pie or take a machine-gun to your  
>> co-workers...um...
>
> This would differ from our understanding of modern neuroscience in what
> way, I mean other than the fact that, with rare exceptions, most of the
> other people in our heads don't get the final vote on what to do, but
> just chime in a lot? And what would the point of that be "for" God?
> Having billions of chattering voices chiming in about all the stuff they
> want him to do next all the time, where his sole gain from that is
> that... he gets to *pick* which ones to listen to, but without all the
> complex neurological filters "we" have that are supposed to make the
> crazier people in our own heads stay quiet. People without those filters
> (or rather with broken ones) tend to be what we call bipolar, and other
> similar disorders. One minute they are listening to the devil on the
> shoulder, the next the angel, and they *personally* can't tell the
> difference. Always thought God had to be completely nuts, by the crazy
> definitions given for his behavior, but gluing billions of people, each
> with their own collection of crazy people in them, into a mess that
> hasn't got the filters we do, would **make** any such entity nuts, if it
> wasn't to start with.

And yet explains so much if true.

-- 
Phil Cook

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