From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 1:28 PM To: Deepak Chopra Subject: Re: From a physicist friend Breathe On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 9:14=AM Deepak Chopra <nonlocal101=chopra.com wrote: =br> FYI Response 1 EFTA_R1_01914594 EFTA02664618 "That's because it isn't, and everyone here (apparently =ave one) is rational and objective enough to understand that. Physical phe=omena, and phenomena in general, are ultimately perceptual in natu=e and subject to observational replication - that's why they call phys=cs an empirical science. But consciousness is not. Consciousness cannot be =bjectively, replicably observed. Its putative physical correlates, includi=g brains and behaviors, can be replicably observed, and it can be subjecti=ely apprehended by any conscious entity. But that's it. Anyone=who denies this understands neither physics nor consciousness, and has a s=vere logic problem to boot, inasmuch as he/she cannot properly distinguish=between cognition and perception or internal and external state.c/=pan> =br>This isn't "polemics"=. This is just the way it is. Stop overreaching. Deepak Chopra 2 EFTA_R1_01914595 EFTA02664619 2013 Costa De= Mar Road Carlsbad, CA =2013 New Book: Radicalbeauty.com <http://radicalbeauty.co=/> 3 EFTA_R1_01914596 EFTA02664620 =br> aiv class="gmail_msg"> <http://www.radical=eauty.comh 4 EFTA_R1_01914597 EFTA02664621 =/div> 5 EFTA_R1_01914598 EFTA02664622 <=1> 6 EFTA_R1_019 14599 EFTA02664623