Psience Quest

(2017-09-21, 02:27 PM)chuck Wrote: [ -> ]But surely the brain plays some part in dreaming.

Why? If the brain is primarily an interface for our senses and nervous system perhaps it has no involvement whatsoever in dreaming.

(2017-09-21, 02:40 PM)jkmac Wrote: [ -> ]Why? If the brain is primarily an interface for our senses and nervous system perhaps it has no involvement whatsoever in dreaming.

Well, as an embodied human you aren't going to be doing much dreaming without a brain. Maybe different once you cross the veil.

(2017-09-21, 02:40 PM)jkmac Wrote: [ -> ]Why? If the brain is primarily an interface for our senses and nervous system perhaps it has no involvement whatsoever in dreaming.

The role of the brain is to make the eyeballs jiggle about?

(2017-09-21, 02:59 PM)Typoz Wrote: [ -> ]The role of the brain is to make the eyeballs jiggle about?

Oh, the politically incorrect rejoinders that come to mind.

(2017-09-21, 02:44 PM)chuck Wrote: [ -> ]Well, as an embodied human you aren't going to be doing much dreaming without a brain. Maybe different once you cross the veil.

Just because I need my brain to keep my heart beating doesn't mean I need it to dream.

You have heard, I assume, that there are documented cases of people missing over 90 of their brain, and they didn't even know it? These are cases of Hydocephly. If not I'll find a link and send.

(2017-09-21, 02:59 PM)Typoz Wrote: [ -> ]The role of the brain is to make the eyeballs jiggle about?

Very debatable what the role of the brain is. 

Whats the role of a TV? To house millions of movies? or to be a receiver and display mechanism of movies that are actually located somewhere else?

(2017-09-21, 05:43 PM)jkmac Wrote: [ -> ]Just because I need my brain to keep my heart beating doesn't mean I need it to dream.

You have heard, I assume, that there are documented cases of people missing over 90 of their brain, and they didn't even know it? These are cases of Hydocephly. If not I'll find a link and send.

Yes. Please don't discuss that in this thread. (The wasted brain topic.) I don't know a lot about the brain, but to say it plays no part in dreaming seems odd.

(2017-09-21, 05:46 PM)jkmac Wrote: [ -> ]Very debatable what the role of the brain is. 

Whats the role of a TV? To house millions of movies? or to be a receiver and display mechanism of movies that are actually located somewhere else?

But no TV, no shows. No radio, no music. 

That's not to say that in the "non-physical" following death, that "people" may not also dream. But as a human in a "physical" human body, it seems the brain plays a fairly important role in many ordinary activities including dreaming.

(2017-09-21, 06:11 PM)chuck Wrote: [ -> ]But no TV, no shows. No radio, no music. 

That's not to say that in the "non-physical" following death, that "people" may not also dream. But as a human in a "physical" human body, it seems the brain plays a fairly important role in many ordinary activities including dreaming.

You don't know whether the brain plays an important activity or not in dreaming. 

And I can't recall of an account through any channel or medium account that references sleeping or dreaming in the non-physical.

(2017-09-21, 06:11 PM)chuck Wrote: [ -> ]But no TV, no shows. No radio, no music. 

Yup, those too. But the TV isn't the place where the TV shows are made or stored. Same with music. The TV is a conduit. As may be the brain.