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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 1:36 PM To: Deepak Chopra Subject: Re: From a physicist friend If I ask you to close your eyes And I move the chair . What is y=ur view re the reality of the chair between moves On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:27 AM jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: =blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:lp= ticcc solid:padding-left:1ex") Breathe On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:14 AM Deepak Chopra =It; crnalitc FYI Responding to another physicist who said &q=ot;None of you seem capable of rational objective critical thinking on thi= topic of consciousness as a physical phenomenon." Response =br class="gmail_msg"> 1 EFTA_R1_01914914 EFTA02664824 "That's because it isn't, and everyone here (=pparently save one) is rational and objective enough to understand that. P=ysical phenomena, and phenomena in general, are ultimately perceptual in nature and subject to observ=tional replication - that's why they call physics an empirical science= But consciousness is not. Consciousness cannot be objectively, replicably observed. Its putative ph=sical correlates, including brains and behaviors, can be replicably observ=d, and it can be subjectively apprehended by any conscious entity. But that's it. Anyone who deni=s this understands neither physics nor consciousness, and has a severe log=c problem to boot, inasmuch as he/she cannot properly distinguish between =ognition and perception or internal and external state. This isn't "po=emics". This is just the way it is. Stop overreaching. Deepak Chopra 2 EFTA_R1_01914915 EFTA02664825 2013 Costa Del Mar Road =AO Carlsbad, CA 92013 New Book: Radicalb=auty.com <http://radicalbeauty.com/> 3 EFTA_R1_01914916 EFTA02664826 4 EFTA_R1_01914917 EFTA02664827 =/div> =br class="gmail_msg"> 5 EFTA_R1_01914918 EFTA02664828 =/blockquote> <=blockquote> 6 EFTA_R1_01914919 EFTA02664829