This
page is dedicated to reviews, reactions, comments, suggestions and criticisms I
received, that authors approved for publishing.
There was a review related to the first edition, I recently became aware of. It
was in Current Opinion in Neurobiology included in article Cognitive
neuroscience - A selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to papers published
in this issue of Current Opinion in Neurobiology (Volume 11, Issue 2, April
2001, Page 145) by Martin G. Todman (Laboratory of
Neuroendocrinology, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK) and
Philip J. Benson (Department of Psychology, William Guild
Building, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK).
It was placed as second of nine reviews.
Nicely presented home pages written by Damir Ibrisimovic expressing his thoughts
and concepts of objectivity and subjectivity and how this may relate to the
world and what is really "out there". As yet, the opinions expressed in these
pages are not referenced by actual scientific discovery.
Copyright 2001, reprinted with permission from Elsevier
The
first review I received, updated since, was mailed to me on 8 December
2005:
Dear
Mr. Ibrisimovic,
Thank you for sending me your 45-page paper "Imagination is Greater than
Knowledge," taken from your Web site. I read the paper in its entirety over the
last several months and found it interesting, often extremely so, intelligently
and often persuasively argued by a bright and articulate writer. Beyond this
general remark, I cannot go much further because I lack specific expertise in
experimental psychology, neuroscience, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy
of science, and the philosophy of mind and your paper is at the intersection of
these, among other disciplines.
That said, much of what you write appears to be reasonable conclusions based on
solid scientific research. Libet's findings (Benjamin Libet, "Unconscious
Cerebral Initiative and the Role of Conscious Will in Voluntary Action,"
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8(1995): 529-566) cited on .8 seconds delay
before voluntary action can be carried out, with only .3 seconds of this time
available to our conscious minds, unquestionably have major implications for
virtually every discipline. Some of these implications and some qualifications
on their import are discussed in Benjamin Libet, Neurophysiology of
Consciousness: Selected Papers of Benjamin Libet (Boston: Birkhauser, 1993),
Epilogue I.
Thank you for bringing our attention to your stimulating website. The picture
you are painting is indeed refreshing, but while it is quite different from that
painted by the prevailing world view of the Western world, it bears delightful
similarities to our own here at PEAR. If you are not already familiar with our
program, I invite you to look at our
web site, including some of the papers that can be downloaded from its
publication page. In particular, I think you will find the one entitled "Science
of the Subjective" (PDF) strongly supportive of and resonant with your own
approach.
I applaud your efforts to pull all of these diverse threads into a comprehensive
tapestry and wish you every success in your desire to share it with others.
With all best wishes,
Brenda Dunne
PEAR Laboratory Manager
Copyright 2000-2005. The
concepts expressed on these pages, unless attributed to others, may not be used
without explicit permission from
Damir Ibrisimovic.
