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 Posted by Aelhswith on Thursday October 06, @09:59AM
from the dept.
[article] blurb: The gelatinous substance of the brain is a dense matrix of billions of robotic cells. Inside the cells are other intricate machines. There's no one in there. So how does the conscious "you" clamber from the darkness of the box out into the bright arena of subjective experience? There are two puzzles to solve. No one has yet fathomed how the material substance of the brain can conceivably give rise to conscious awareness [the hard problem]. The other puzzle is more amenable to science: how does the brain, with its diverse and distributed functions, arrive at a unified sense of self?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-1788021,00.html
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Re: Mirror, mirror on the wall, is there anyone there at all?
by Patrick Casanova on Thursday July 27, @01:49PM
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The quantum physicist Amit Goswami argued, based on his interpretation of available data, that conciousness creates atoms instead of the other way around. In this view, consciousness gives rise to biology instead of biology giving rise to consciousness. See his books "The Self-Aware Universe" and (more controversial) "The Quantum Doctor". There are indeed a lot of data pointing to paraphysical domains, including psychic research, apparent non-locality on a macroscopic level, homeopathy, and the like.
Computers process symbols, not meaning, and yet human minds process meaning. We are more than computers and we are more than empty atoms
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