Oh, Mr. Science!

[Roadtoad]

I had to read through this whole thread to figure out what was really at work here.

Sorry I bothered.

True, there's the oddity factor in this, but you're talking about someone who already knows the value of discipline and training. The man's a physician; he didn't get there as a slacker. He worked hard in school, and eventually as an intern. So, it's no surprise that having experienced something as horrifying as nearly dying, he'd reassess his life, realize there were other things he wanted to do, and put his considerable energies into that new endeavor.

Nothing mystical or magical about it. Many other people do the same thing, without being hit by lightning. (Probably a good thing, too. I hear that kind of thing is painful.)

 

[Explorer]

I had a kind of classical music "inspiration" experience in my teens.

It occurred in a semi-dream state soon after I had gone to bed. I woke up after a light sleep, and could hear a full orchestra playing in my head. As far as I was aware it was music that I had not heard before, and if I had been trained in writing musical script, or classical music in general, I could have noted the whole thing down.

Now this was a one off, and it never happened again, and I put it down to the creativity element in the brain given a free outing during this semi-sleep state. It never once crossed my mind that this experience, had anything to do with an interventionist god.

 

[arthwollipot]

I've heard really good music in dreams as well. I can write it down. Problem is the music vanishes once I am awake.

http://xkcd.com/430/

 

[I Am He]

Sorry to hear that you're tired, Mayday. Why don't you take your meds and lie down for awhile. I'll bet when you wake up you'll fell so much better.


I Am He

 

[mayday]

Cynics. What evidence do you have that his concert playing ability has more to do with one thousand four hundred and fifty six lessons than the lightning strike?

I don't think it was the lightning strike that gave him music ability, but why did he have the desire to pursue the music after the lightning strike when he never had the desire before.

Yes, your mind is taking waves and transferring them into thoughts like a tv. That's just not what so-called neuroscience calls it. Your mind is not just in your brain. Your brain is a vehicle for your mind. I don't see how you can't understand that this makes perfect sense. I learned about this back in the day when I was taking 100 level psychology courses.

 

[chillzero]

I don't think it was the lightning strike that gave him music ability, but why did he have the desire to pursue the music after the lightning strike when he never had the desire before.

because life threatening situations make you re-assess priorities, and often make people more likely to indulge themselves in more personal pursuits.

I'll let a more qualified person address the other nonsense.

 

[Mashuna]

I don't think it was the lightning strike that gave him music ability, but why did he have the desire to pursue the music after the lightning strike when he never had the desire before.

Yes, your mind is taking waves and transferring them into thoughts like a tv. That's just not what so-called neuroscience calls it. Your mind is not just in your brain. Your brain is a vehicle for your mind. I don't see how you can't understand that this makes perfect sense. I learned about this back in the day when I was taking 100 level psychology courses.

Maybe a resit of the psychology classes would be in order?

 

[Lothian]

IYes, your mind is taking waves and transferring them into thoughts like a tv. That's just not what so-called neuroscience calls it. Your mind is not just in your brain. Your brain is a vehicle for your mind. I don't see how you can't understand that this makes perfect sense. I learned about this back in the day when I was taking 100 level psychology courses.

Glad to have an expert on board.

Where does the mind get the waves from that it transfers into thoughts?

If the mind is not just in the brain where else is it?

When the mind wants to raise an arm how does that message get to the muscles? Does it go via the brain? Can we intercept the message between the mind and brain?

 

[paximperium]

I don't think it was the lightning strike that gave him music ability, but why did he have the desire to pursue the music after the lightning strike when he never had the desire before.

Don't know. But I don't make things up or insinuate answers I don't know.

Yes, your mind is taking waves and transferring them into thoughts like a tv. That's just not what so-called neuroscience calls it.

So what does neuroscience calls it?
Have you developed an entire new field of science of your own? Please do tell.

Your mind is not just in your brain. Your brain is a vehicle for your mind. I don't see how you can't understand that this makes perfect sense. I learned about this back in the day when I was taking 100 level psychology courses.

The brain is a vehicle of the mind? Yeah...so? What makes you think that the mind is anything more than an emergent property of the brain?

Can the mind exist without the brain?

 

[Elvis666]

I found an instructor and he said he was very impressed because I was picking notes and melodies by ear and he kept looking at me cock-eyed and asking if I was sure I had never played before.

Musical ability is funny that way. I was a music major in college and could play all the woodwind and brass instruments when I graduated. I tried several times over the years to teach myself to play classical guitar, but always gave up when I just couldn't get the hang of it.

A couple of years ago, my wife bought me a inexpensive classical guitar and I started working at it every day. Here, two years later, I can acutely play. Just because I could master any band instrument quickly and had played piano since my teens didn't translate. I had to practice to play classical guitar.

 

[Elvis666]

Cynics. What evidence do you have that his concert playing ability has more to do with one thousand four hundred and fifty six lessons than the lightning strike?

If it were just the lightning strike, you'd have wannabes all over standing on hilltops holding metal rods during summer storms.

 

[aggle-rithm]

If you were not being so sarcastic I would think you have honestly never heard of this, but I know you have. You know the brain is the vehicle of consciousness and, like the tv, the brain takes waves and turns them into pictures and words.

I'm feeling very tired right now.

Of course you are! Channeling Interesting Ian must be exhausting.

BTW, I'm curious: Who does the brain show these pictures and words to?

 

[aggle-rithm]

For some reason, this anecdote about the lightning guy is much more heart-warming than the story (which I saw on TV a few weeks ago) of the guy endowed with super-human artistic ability after he burst a blood vessel in his brain while straining to pass stool.

Why is lightning so much more highly regarded as a source of magic powers than constipation?

 

[aggle-rithm]

I had a kind of classical music "inspiration" experience in my teens.

It occurred in a semi-dream state soon after I had gone to bed. I woke up after a light sleep, and could hear a full orchestra playing in my head. As far as I was aware it was music that I had not heard before, and if I had been trained in writing musical script, or classical music in general, I could have noted the whole thing down.

When I was a composition major I had this experience a lot. Most often it turned out to be either something I had written before or something someone else had written before. But it always seemed like a brilliant, fresh new idea in the dream.

 

[tiger]

I don't think it was the lightning strike that gave him music ability, but why did he have the desire to pursue the music after the lightning strike when he never had the desire before.

Yes, your mind is taking waves and transferring them into thoughts like a tv. That's just not what so-called neuroscience calls it. Your mind is not just in your brain. Your brain is a vehicle for your mind. I don't see how you can't understand that this makes perfect sense. I learned about this back in the day when I was taking 100 level psychology courses.

You believe in the paranormal and pay psychics to give you reading about the future and you call Neurology medicine aka science... so called, excuse me. Then of course you tell us "your brain is a vehicle for your mind" and then you say "I don't see how you can't understand that this makes perfect sense. Now you called neurology medicine so called and you seek out psychics and pay them money to read your future, so yes I am sure this makes perfect sense to you.

 

[CFLarsen]

I suffered a brain injury as a 13 y/o (horse fell on me) and I have two holes in my frontal lobe, each about the size of a quarter. It has caused me to suffer debilitating depression and melancholy.

Do you think this has anything to do with your many wacky beliefs, some of which endangered the life of your unborn child?

 

[Hellbound]

Well, to be fair, there is a mind-body connection. The brain regulates breathing and heartrate, for example. Also, varous glandular excretions and hormones from various parts of the body can have effects on the brain (adrenalin, for example).

But, somehow, I don't think this is what she meant. And I still have no idea where the TV set came from (unless she really is chanelling another consciousness...some know who I mean).

 

[mayday]

because life threatening situations make you re-assess priorities, and often make people more likely to indulge themselves in more personal pursuits.

I'll let a more qualified person address the other nonsense.

And I say this explanation is half-baked nonsense as well.

 

[mayday]

For some reason, this anecdote about the lightning guy is much more heart-warming than the story (which I saw on TV a few weeks ago) of the guy endowed with super-human artistic ability after he burst a blood vessel in his brain while straining to pass stool.

Why is lightning so much more highly regarded as a source of magic powers than constipation?

I didn't say it was magic.

Who said it was magic?

 

[mayday]

Well, to be fair, there is a mind-body connection. The brain regulates breathing and heartrate, for example. Also, varous glandular excretions and hormones from various parts of the body can have effects on the brain (adrenalin, for example).

But, somehow, I don't think this is what she meant. And I still have no idea where the TV set came from (unless she really is chanelling another consciousness...some know who I mean).

Yes, this is has to do with what I'm talking about.