Originally Posted by
DrSmellThis
That would be a
good "bottom up" explation of it. A more "top down" view would be that "attraction" is a pervasive story people tell
themselves; tell each other; and create among themselves over time. The more aspects of the story hold true or fit
together, the more the attraction story becomes tellable and resonates. The brain amplification is really just like
a sort of harmonic resonance where more things fit together to make a coherent perception in an area of the brain
where the perception is being integrated as a candidate for a perceivable phenomenon (i.e., an experience of
attraction). The brain is like a meta-sense organ, then. It senses the phenomenon, or attraction, per
se, as a whole! This fits in perfectly with common sense and ordinary speech as well as science. So perception
is like meta-sensation, or a hierarchically bigger system into which sensation fits. Cognition, then, is like a
"meta-perception". (Culture is a more inclusive level still.) And it's all just reflective consciousness or
awareness, which just differs according to the degree of reflectiveness (though sensory information is really a
"pre-experience" before it is integrated in perceptual areas of the brain and becomes reflected upon in a basic way.
Otherwise it's just a meaningless incoming signal. Not all incoming signals are meaningless, however, as we're
consciously directed toward picking up signals and making sense of them already. A portion is never focused on by
immediate intentional consciousness but is processed less directly in the brain, put together, and "reflected upon"
somewhat below awareness). See how easily it all fits together when you look at it holistically or systemically?
There is no need to think in "fragments" whatsoever! It's more about general, real-world wisdom as opposed to "my
great theory," and yet all the science fits -- even moreso!
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