[MD] Mystics and Brains

[ian glendinning]

FWIW Platt, when I blogged about Dennett's "Consciousness Explained" a
couple of years ago my comment was "Hardly" :-)

Consciousness in the now. No problem with that.
Try this excellent link (almost 1.5 hours long)
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/events_online/dudleian_2003.html

I'll have to come back to the explanation.
Ian

On 1/16/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
>
> > The first question is more a matter of how consciousness emerges in a
> > brain (or similar device). I don't believe that's necessarily hard to
> > do, provided no-one is looking for something elusive like "proof".
> > Would I be wasting my time Platt, if I attempted an explanation ?
> >
>
> Gee, I don't know whether you would be wasting your time or not. As far as
> I know no one has yet to come up with an explanation that passes "peer
> review," so I guess your attempt would be as provocative as anyone's. I read
> Dennett's book, "Consciousness Explained" a while ago, but I don't think his
> explanation ever caught on with others in the field. It certainly didn't
> make sense to me. In any case, why not give it a go? As you may recall, my
> own preference is the idea that the brain, like every other bodily organ,
> deals with what is present in the the present -- namely consciousness.
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