“Your analysis is quite cogent and intellectually impeccable - 20 years ago, the only counter argument would have been the neuropsychologists’ proclivity to ‘localize’ higher faculties such as consciousness in that
While this introduces consciousness as the result of a selection process, i.e. provides a role for consciousness, I don't see how it really does any more than the previous construction to provide a meaningful way to distinguish being "in control" from a deterministic process. Wilhelm said: ...
Accordingly, inactivation of these thalamic nuclei is associated with disorders of consciousness.较高和较低的皮层区域不仅在皮层下发送投射,而且还接收来自皮层下区域的直接输入。丘脑广泛投射到皮层区域;例如,丘脑的高级核团如丘脑枕核、丘脑腹内侧核、丘脑板内核以及丘脑的未定带广泛投射到上皮层和下皮层区域。传统...
The 'hard problem', however, remains. How do billions of neurons firing in synchrony create consciousness? How does a physical entity, the brain, create an entity as abstract as the mind? How do neurons produce thought?doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-0977-8_13Professor Tom Stonier BA, MSc, PhD,...
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the motor neuron and stimulate the appropriate leg muscle to contract. the response is a muscular jerk that happens quickly and does not involve your brain. humans have lots of hardwired reflexes like this, but as tasks become more complex, the pathway circuitry gets more complicated and the ...
"There's part of the brain that has to do primarily with vision and other parts that have to do primarily with sound. Now, can we look in the vision section and say, Is there a special part of the brain that detects red objects and another that detects green objects? Or does the sa...
Interconnected nerve cells (neurons) in the brainSince a conscious, self-adjusting mind would seem to be a very great asset for an animal to have, the obvious initial question when thinking about consciousness is, ‘Why haven’t many animals developed it?’ Despite this being an obvious ...
“The discovery of wireless radio made people rethink the basic ideas of consciousness,” says Anthony Enns, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia who studies the history of technology and its relation to pseudoscience. “Crookes was fascinated by the idea of the brain as a kind ...
plus the discomfort of a noisy mind. In a state of consciousness, you can simply “disable” the translation process and allow the mind to operate in silence. Remember, that translation of thoughts into “language” is just a feature available in the human brain, and it’s not required to...