What is the mind? Charles Rose has been attempting to present answers the question in his series on the brain. But some of the answers he presents are controversial.
Cornelia Bargmann of the Howard Hughes Medical Center makes what seems to be a clear connection between DNA certain types of experience. She uses the experience of sight and the expression of genes that detect and color in the eye. She contrast that to learned behavior such a speaking one language or another. But John Searle of the University of California clarifies the most interesting issue. He asks, “How does the brain produce the experience of qualitative unified subjectivity?”
How does does the brain produce consciousness? As Bargmann explained, the expression of genes produces a working eye. But the eye senses only light waves. These light waves have different frequencies, some of these frequencies we identify as the colors red or green or blue. But there is no inherent redness or greenness or blueness in these frequencies. It is all in our mind. It is our mind that interprets these frequencies as red or green or blue.
Seale says that our experience of consciousness is all produced by variable rates of neuron firings in the brain, and that is where we disagree. The brain does notproduce consciousness. The brain senses consciousness. My theory is that the brain senses the field of the mind, the field of consciousness, the field of the Psyche to use the Jungian term. The brain unifies the qualitative field into subjective experience. See post below…
