Saturday, January 9, 2010

You Won't Find Consciousness In The Brain

Consciousness in action? It is tempting to think that's what is going on - but wrong
(Image: Hans Neleman/Getty)


From New Scientist:

MOST neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain the mystery of human consciousness in terms of the activity of the brain. There is, however, a vocal minority of neurosceptics who contest this orthodoxy. Among them are those who focus on claims neuroscience makes about the preciseness of correlations between indirectly observed neural activity and different mental functions, states or experiences.

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